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Deployment planning and preparation
Employ the best practices in this section in advance of actual deployments. They represent the setup steps necessary to prepare for actual deployment operations.
- Add bundles to the deploy depot.
# tacmd addBundles -I imagepath …
- Create deploy groups.
Create a deploy group for any collection of deployment targets. Group properties can be applied to the group during creation or afterward. Use any of the best practices described above in Deploy groups.
# tacmd creategroup -t DEPLOY -g DBServers …
- Add deploy group members.
After creating your deploy groups, add the appropriate systems hostnames as group members (targets) according the best practice chosen for the group. Member properties can be applied during member creation or afterward.
# tacmd addgroupmember -t DEPLOY -g DBServers -m hostname … # …
- Create bundle groups.
Create a bundle group for any collection of agent bundles you wish to deploy. Group properties can be applied to the group during creation or afterward. Use any of the best practices described above in Bundle groups.
# tacmd creategroup -t BUNDLE -g DBAgentBundles …
- Add bundle group members.
After creating your bundle groups, add the appropriate agent bundles as members to the groups according the best practice chosen for the group. Member properties can be applied during member creation or afterward.
# tacmd addgroupmember -t BUNDLE -g DBAgentBundles -m UnixOSAgent -y UX … # tacmd addgroupmember -t BUNDLE -g DBAgentBundles -m DB2Agent -y UD … # …
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