Contents

• What's New
• Software Compatibility Requirements
• Installation Considerations
• Known Issues

Key Benefits of Serena Release Automation

Serena® Release Automation automates application installation and configuration tasks. Key benefits include the following:

• Handles a high volume of tasks
• Cuts deployment time and cost
• Reduces deployment errors
• Handles the complexity of multiple release destinations and configurations

Features

New Features of Release 3.3.3

New features of Serena Release Automation 3.3.3 include the following:

• Added support for namespace attributes in the XPath actions.
• Enhanced WLS actions pack with support for WLS 10.34 and 10.35.
• Uses self-certificate to enable working with your own certification and authentication keys.
• Improved user interface initialization time.
• Improved silent installation to enable update of non-default Tomcat ports.
• Get Windows Server Properties and Modify Windows Service Properties actions are now executed using Run as User functionality.
• Improved process publishing time.
• Improved locking to allow login and design during publish time in systems that use SQL Server as the database.
• Updated certification message to while connecting to user interface over HTTPS.
• Fixed the For Each loop so that it no longer causes items to be ignored or duplicated.
• Fixed the user interface so that intermittent issues do not occur when executing several processes simultaneously.
• Fixed XPath actions so that they no longer occasionally change the encoding format of the manipulated file.

For detailed information on feature enhancements, see Serena Release Automation 3.3 Release Notes posted on the the Serena Customer Support website My Downloads page.

The following platforms are supported by this release:

• Windows 2003 R2 and higher
• Linux RH Enterprise Linux 5.2, Fedora, SUSE, CentOS, Ubuntu and Oracle Enterprise Linux.
  On Linux: Kernel 2.6 and higher is required.
• Solaris 10 SPARC
• Solaris 10 x86

For more information, see the Serena Release Plan for Serena Release Automation on the Serena Customer Support website on the product roadmap under Supported Platforms.

To get to this information from the Serena Support website main roadmap page, select Release Automation and then select your version.

You should plan your installation and configuration according to the detailed documentation provided with the product.

On Windows platforms, you must have Administrator privileges to install Serena Release Automation.

To install Serena Release Automation:

1. Extract the archive for your platform into a suitable location.
   Please ensure that the file structure created matches the file structure for your platform as follows:
• Windows
Release_Automation_3.3.3-windows.exe
nolio_server_windows_3_3_3_b13.exe
vars\defaults.varfile


• Linux
Release_Automation_3.3.3-linux.bin
nolio_server_linux_3_3_3_b13.sh
vars\defaults.varfile


• Solaris 10 SPARC
Release_Automation_3.3.3-solaris.bin
nolio_server_solaris-sparc-32_3_3_3_b13.sh
vars\defaults.varfile


• Solaris 10 x86
Release_Automation_3.3.3-solaris.bin
nolio_server_solaris-x86_3_3_3_b13.sh
vars\defaults.varfile



2. On UNIX platforms, ensure that the .bin file has execute permission for the current user.



3. Execute the .exe or .bin appropriate for your system; a graphical user interface is launched to lead you through the installation process.
• Windows
Release_Automation_3.3.3-windows.exe


• Linux
Release_Automation_3.3.3-linux.bin


• Solaris 10 SPARC
Release_Automation_3.3.3-solaris.bin


• Solaris 10 x86
Release_Automation_3.3.3-solaris.bin

Licensing

See "Updating Serena Release Automation License" in Serena Release Automation Installation and Configuration Guide.

System Requirements

The system requirements for successful installation and execution of Serena Release Automation depend on your organization's usage requirements. For more details, see the Serena Release Automation Installation and Configuration Guide.

Minimum system requirements are as follows:

Memory:

• Data Management - At least 1 GB RAM
• Execution Server - At least 512MB RAM

Available Disk Space:

• Data Management - At least 1 GB
• Execution Server - At least 300MB

Database:

• MySQL 5.1.30 or higher with InnoDB storage engine enabled.
• Oracle 10g or higher
• MS SQL Server 2005 or higher with either Windows or SQL Authentication

Upgrading

• ASAP customers running the 3.2.x release (3.2 / 3.2.1 / 3.2.2) can perform a direct upgrade to the latest release using an easy to use upgrade installer. Upgrade must include all Nolio components (Datamanagement, Execution Servers and Nolio Agents).
• ASAP customers running the beta version of 3.3 (any 3.3 release that was made before 3.3.1.237) must perform a full upgrade to all Nolio components.
• ASAP customers running an earlier 3.3 release (3.3.1.237) can perform an upgrade that will include only Server components (Datamanagement and Execution Servers). No agent upgrade is required.

Solutions are available for known issues in the Serena Customer Support Knowledgebase. These solutions provide details about the issue and list associated fixes as they become available. Generally available fixes can be downloaded from the solution page online.

Issues known to exist in Serena Release Automation 3.3.3 are as follows:

1. You cannot run the Serena Release Automation installer in silent mode.
2. The installer cannot connect to a pre-existing database name in Oracle (DEF217099).