The Preflight Deployment Process; Connection To Preflight Deployment Tools - Symantec WISE PACKAGE STUDIO 8.0 - REFERENCE V1.0 Reference

The Preflight Deployment Process

Connection to Preflight Deployment Tools

Wise Package Studio Reference
Quality Assurance module only.
Phase 1:
Use Preflight
Instrumentation to
Package to
create a preflight
deploy
package based on a
package that you plan
to deploy.
Phase 2:
Deploy the preflight
package to end user
computers using your
own deployment
system.
Deployment
System
Phase 3:
Use Preflight Analysis
to view results.
Your computer
Use Preflight Analysis tool
to connect to Preflight
Analysis Web application
and view results.
Quality Assurance module only.
For Preflight Deployment to work, the Preflight Web applications must be installed on a
Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) Web server on your network. You must
also ensure that the other requirements for the Preflight Web applications have been
met. (See System Requirements in the Wise Package Studio Getting Started Guide.)
The Preflight Web applications handle the data generated from preflight packages that
you deploy.
Preflight Data Collector Web application
When you create a preflight package using the Preflight Instrumentation tool, you must
specify the URL of the Data Collector Web application. The URL is embedded in the
preflight package so that when it runs, it sends its results to the Data Collector Web
application. Obtain the Data Collector URL from the team member who installed Preflight
Preflight
package
Your
computer
End User Computers: preflight package runs tests
and sends results to Web server.
Web server
Preflight Data Collector Web application
collects data and inserts into SQL
database.
Preflight Analysis Web application
organizes and displays results.
Preflight Deployment
Preflight package:
Installation changes
disabled.
Tests added to evaluate
the installation
environment.
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