Analyzing Installations Prior To Deployment - Novell ADMINSTUDIO 9.5 User Manual

Analyzing Installations Prior to
Deployment
Edition • Predeployment Test is included with AdminStudio Professional and Enterprise Editions.
The Predeployment Test tool allows system administrators to determine if a Windows Installer
succeed or fail when it is installed in production. Predeployment Test finds issues with disk space, install
conditions, and will find conflicts with Windows installer packages already installed on the system.
The Predeployment Test user documentation is organized into the following sections:
Table 20-1 • Predeployment Test User Documentation
Section
About the
Predeployment Test
Tool
Configuring the
Predeployment Test
Environment
Performing
Predeployment Analysis
Viewing Predeployment
Test Results
Predeployment Test
Reference
AdminStudio 9.5 User Guide
Description
This section provides an overview of the Predeployment Test tool and explains
how it works.
This section explains how to configure the Predeployment Test Results Web Site
and how to set the Predeployment Test Results Web site addresses.
This section provides step-by-step procedures explaining how to generate and
distribute a test-ready Windows Installer package (a package that does not make
any system changes when it is deployed), and how to generate test reports.
This section describes each of the reports available on the Predeployment Test
Results Web site.
Every view, dialog box, and Wizard available in the Predeployment Test tool is
discussed in this section.
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