Re: Lights out operations

Aldon has a promotion part and a deployment part, if you set it up that way. We generally promote and deploy during the day, unless an in-use display file or file in involved.

We are set up to "Install Live" which means that when you do the promotion to production it automatically creates the deployment set. However, in the progression of screens there is a part where you can change the deployment date and time. I typically set it to 6:00 am the next day, which is way after our overnight batch and backup is finished. If you need more details on how to do this I can check it out at work. (Or Aldon support will walk you through it.)

As others have mentioned, you can also have your nightly batch, as a final step, release/hold a job queue as needed.

Sam

On 8/30/2011 11:44 AM, Paul E. Fenstermacher wrote:

We're beginning to implement, to the extent possible, an automated
environment to reduce the need for overnight operators. One issue
that's come up is how to handle overnight application changes.
Currently operators move Aldon deployment jobs from an inactive job
queue to an active job queue and when that job finishes they move the
"clean up" job to an active job queue. How does anyone else running a
lights out operation handle this process? Thanks.



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