Release Automation Actions Configuration Details

A CA Release Automation Actions plugin configuration enables you to execute Release Automation (Nolio) actions through deployment tasks.

Before you can use the Release Automation plugin, an administrator must do the following:

Field Descriptions

The field descriptions are included in the UI. While creating or editing a base or configuration, point to a field name to view its description.

A few fields that may need additional explanation are described in the following table.

Field Description Example Values

Nolio URL

URL for the Nolio server http://nolioserver:8080/datamanagement/

OpenApiService URL Node

This points to the Nolio Web services, relative to the path in Nolio URL. /ws/OpenAPIService

Rest URL Node

This points to the Nolio Rest services, relative to the path in Nolio URL. /a/api/V4

Nolio URL Process Execution Overview Node

This points to the Nolio process execution overview UI, relative to the path in Nolio URL. This is used as a link in deployment tasks to view the Nolio page where the executions are running. /#/main/studio/process_execution/ applications/@appId/process_tags/ ENV@envId_PROC_TAG@tagId
Nolio URL Deployment Execution Overview Node This points to the Nolio deployment execution overview UI, relative to the path in Nolio URL. This is used as a link in deployment tasks to view the Nolio page where the executions are running. /#/main/deployments@DeploymentRunId? selection=current
Version The version of Nolio REST services, which is used to determine the fields available V4
Instance Name Release Control uses the instance name with the notification URL to get the correct notifications. See Configuring Nolio REST Notifications.
Job Polling Interval Tells the job polling system at what intervals to check the deployment status, in seconds. The default polling interval for newly-added configurations is 60 seconds and allowed values are between 10 and 3600 seconds. If a polling value is not specified, polling is disabled. 600
Job Polling Timeout Tells the job polling system the amount of time at which it should stop checking for deployment execution status. The minimum value is 600 seconds. A blank value is treated as no timeout.
Job State Success The Nolio job state that indicates success FLOW_FINISHED,SUCCEEDED
Job State Paused The Nolio job state that indicates a pause in execution FLOW_FAILED_PAUSED, BLOCKED
Job States Failure List of Nolio job states that indicate failure, delimited by commas. CREATION_FAILED, FILES_DISTRIBUTION_FAILED, FILES_PROPAGATION_FAILED, PRE_FAILED, FLOW_STOPPED, FAILED
Deployment Stages Specify the deployment stages to be executed after deployment is created. If no deployment stage is selected by the user in a Create and Run a Deployment Plan deployment task, all the stages specified here are executed. Initialization, Validation, Deployment, Post-Deployment
Nolio Default Job Name Prefix A default prefix to add to the name of Nolio jobs initiated using this plugin configuration; this can be overridden by entering a job prefix in the deployment task configuration RLC