About The Predeployment Test Tool; How The Predeployment Test Tool Works; Predeployment Test Tool Components - Novell ADMINSTUDIO 9.5 User Manual

Chapter 20: Analyzing Installations Prior to Deployment

About the Predeployment Test Tool

About the Predeployment Test Tool
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.
This section includes the following topics:
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How the Predeployment Test Tool Works

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Predeployment Test Tool Components

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Overview of Predeployment Test Tool Results
Caution •
Framework 2.0 does not support 64 bit machines.
How the Predeployment Test Tool Works
When using the Predeployment Test Tool to determine if a Windows Installer package will succeed or fail when it is
installed in production, you perform the following steps:
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Create test-ready
Windows Installer
package does not make any system changes when it is installed; it is used to collect data on whether that
.msi
package would succeed or fail if it was installed on a particular machine. Using the wizard, you select the
package to test and you specify deployment and conflict tests that you want to execute on the deployment
machines.
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Install test-ready
package is deployed, Type 1
sends the results to a Web service, and the Web service saves those results into a database.
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Analyze
Predeployment Test Tool Components
The Predeployment Test Tool consists of five components:
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Predeployment Test Preparation
a "test-ready"
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Custom
deployed. Each custom action performs a test and sends the results to the .NET Web service.
•
.NET Web
them into database tables in the Application Catalog.
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Predeployment Test features cannot be installed on 64 bit machines because Microsoft® .NET
packages—Use the
package into a "test-ready" package which incorporates custom actions. A test-ready
.msi
packages—You install the test-ready packages in your enterprise. When a test-ready
.msi
results—You can then view the compiled test results in a Web browser.
package, a package that does not make any system changes when it is deployed.
.msi
Actions—Type 1
.msi
Service—This .NET Web service accepts the results from the custom action execution and saves
Predeployment Test Preparation Wizard
custom actions are executed. Each custom action performs a test and
Wizard—This wizard-based tool converts the original
custom actions are executed when the "test-ready"
to convert an original
.msi
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