ALF Events

Deployment Automation can emit Serena Application Lifecycle Framework (ALF) events to a target endpoint server. ALF is an integrative layer for Serena products. You can use ALF events for custom integrations from SBM to Deployment Automation.

Connection Information

To use ALF events, you must specify the following connection information.

Field Description
SBM Link

A full URL to an SBM event generation service or a root URL to the SBM server where the event manager is hosted.

The link format should be as follows: protocol://host:port

Note: To import the Deployment Automation event definitions into SBM Composer, use the SRAALFEvent.wsdl file provided with your Deployment Automation installation.
User Name User name used to perform authorization on the SBM server.
User Password Password used to perform authorization on the SBM server.

ALF Event Settings

The ALF events apply to the several categories, and there are corresponding sections in the user interface that you can expand or collapse individually. You can use the following control buttons to more easily work with the ALF event options:

The ALF events categories and their options are given in the following sections.

Agent

Event Description
Status changed If this option is selected, ALF Events will be emitted from Deployment Automation for agent status changes.

Application

Event Description
Approval Required If this option is selected, ALF Events will be emitted from Deployment Automation if approval is required for application processes.
Process Started If this option is selected, ALF Events for application process start will be emitted from Deployment Automation.
Process Finished If this option is selected, ALF Events for application process finish will be emitted from Deployment Automation.
Process Started If this option is selected, ALF Events for application process start will be emitted from Deployment Automation.
Manual Task Created If this option is selected, ALF Events for manual task creation will be emitted from Deployment Automation.
Snapshot Modified If this option is selected, ALF Events for application snapshot deletion will be emitted from Deployment Automation.
Approval Required If this option is selected, ALF Events will be emitted when application approval is required.
Manual Task Created If this option is selected, ALF Events will be emitted when manual tasks are created for application processes.

Component

Event Description
Approval Required If this option is selected, ALF Events will be emitted from Deployment Automation if approval is required for component processes.
Version Created If this option is selected, ALF Events for component version creation will be emitted from Deployment Automation.
Version Deleted If this option is selected, ALF Events for component version deletion will be emitted from Deployment Automation.
Process Started If this option is selected, ALF Events for component process start will be emitted from Deployment Automation.
Process Finished If this option is selected, ALF Events for component process finish will be emitted from Deployment Automation.
Manual Task Created If this option is selected, ALF Events will be emitted when manual tasks are created for component processes.

Environment

Event Description
Approval Required If this option is selected, ALF Events will be emitted when environment approval is required.

Global Process

Event Description
Process Started If this option is selected, ALF Events will be emitted from Deployment Automation when global processes start.
Process Finished If this option is selected, ALF Events will be emitted from Deployment Automation when global processes finish.
Manual Task Created If this option is selected, ALF Events will be emitted when manual tasks are created for global processes.

Related Topics

Integrating with SBM