Release Control Administration Overview

Use Release Control Administration to prepare your plugins for use.

There are several ways to navigate to the same place within the user interface. The procedures in this documentation show one of the ways to navigate. Use the included examples to become familiar with the navigation.

To access Release Control Administration, in your Web browser, enter the URL for Release Control Administration. For example:

http://serverName/workcenter/tmtrack.dll?StdPage&Template=rlc/admin

Release Control Administration includes the following global menu options:

• Plugins: Add plugins that are installed on your system.
• Configurations: Add base configurations and configurations created from them.
  • Base Configurations:
    • A set of shared properties that enables you to quickly create and update configurations of different types using that information.
    • A base must be created for each set of configurations.
    • Multiple versions of configurations can be added for the same base configuration.
    • You can add multiple execution and object type configurations (called actions and item configurations in the examples) within one base configuration.
  • Configurations:
    • A configuration is a specific set of information needed to connect to and integrate with external products using a particular plugin.
    • Configurations are selected from collections to add items such as Requests, Deployment Units, and Deployment Tasks.
    • The first configuration is created at the same time you create the base and you can create as many configurations as you need based on each base.
    • Many fields can be overridden to give more flexibility in creating configurations for different groups or slightly different purposes.
    • If the base is updated and fields are overridden, the updates in the base are ignored.
• Tags:
  • Unique names you can assign to plugin configurations in addition to the plugin-defined Type Name.
  • These are referenced in collection widgets to categorize the objects, such as requests, deployment units, and deployment tasks.
  • Several plugin-defined tags are available for the default implementation of Release Control, such as Request, Deployment Unit, and Deployment task tag.