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Software Manager in a Multi-user Environment

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If your organization has multiple, decentralized departments, each using a different
set of packages, you can use a separate database for each department. This
concept is similar to using package groups, but on a larger scale.
Each database should reside on its own server. Running multiple databases on a single
server degrades performance. In addition, you cannot run the Wise scheduled tasks,
which import packages and refresh package subscriptions on a server-based installation,
on more than one database on a single computer.
For configuration recommendations, see Additional Wise Package Studio Configurations
in the Getting Started Guide.
(Enterprise Management Server only.) You can open multiple Software Manager
databases simultaneously. This lets you browse multiple databases in Software Manager
and ConflictManager, and work in a second database without closing the first one.
See Opening and Closing Software Manager Databases
(Enterprise Management Server only.) You cannot perform conflict management
operations across databases. However, you can copy, or subscribe to, packages in
another database. Examples:
Suppose a corporate-level repackaging team maintains a database of packages
used throughout the corporation, and regional teams maintain separate databases
of packages unique to their regions. A regional repackager can subscribe to the
corporate-level packages and resolve conflicts between the regional packages and
the subscribed corporate packages.
When corporate developers, using a Software Manager database with Windows
Installer Editor, subscribe to packages in the database used by system
administrators in Wise Package Studio. This lets developers check the shared
resources in the applications they are building against applications that have been
deployed.
See also:
About the Software Manager Database
Package Subscription on page 74
Creating Software Manager Databases in the Getting Started Guide
Most organizations that use Software Manager work in a multi-user, team-based
environment. Software Manager accommodates a multi-user environment in several
ways:
Users can run Software Manager and ConflictManager from their local computers or
in a client-server configuration, in which the full installation of Wise Package Studio
resides on a server and the client computers are configured to run the software from
the server.
Multiple users can simultaneously access a single Software Manager database that is
stored on a shared server. In this situation:
Multiple users can distribute to the share point directory.
When a package is added to the Software Manager database, all Software
Manager users can view and work with it.
Introduction to Software Manager
on page 12.
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