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After you have built a channel using the iWay Service Manager Administration Console, you must deploy it to be used.
Deployment is the mechanism by which channels move from being stored in the Registry to becoming active in iWay Service Manager. Deployment separates the creation of iSM functions into a design phase and an implementation phase. Deploying and undeploying are useful during development and on a production server, since channels can evolve through multiple versions.
Deploying a channel is the third stage in channel management. Deployment takes a built channel and deploys its components into a runtime environment. When you deploy a channel, you deploy a version of the built channel.
To deploy a channel:
The Deployments pane opens, showing links to Channels, Services, and Web Services, in the left pane.
The Channel Management pane opens. This can also show already deployed channels.
The Available Channels pane opens.
The table that is provided lists all channels that have successfully completed the build process. It also includes the channel creation date, the system where the channel was created, a version number, and a short description.
If there are multiple versions of a channel, you must deploy a specific version of the channel. In this example, there are two versions of SampleChannel.
The Channel Versions pane opens.
Creating multiple versions of a channel is useful if the current version is not working properly and you want to revert back to a previous version that worked.
You are returned to the Channel Management pane. Notice that SampleChannel is now included in the list of deployed channels.
Once a channel is deployed, it must be started. For more information, see How to Start a Channel.
To undeploy a channel:
The Channel Management pane opens.
The channel is undeployed and no longer appears in the Channel Management pane.
To start a channel:
The Channel Management pane opens.
The red X in the Status column indicates that a channel is not started.
A green check mark now displays in the Status column, indicating that the deployed channel is started.
Tip: To start more than one channel at once, you can select multiple check boxes in the Channel Management pane and click Start.
To stop a channel:
The Channel Management pane opens.
The green check mark in the status column indicates that a channel is started.
A red X now displays in the Status column, indicating that the deployed channel is stopped.
Tip: To stop more than one channel at once, you can select multiple check boxes in the Channel Management pane and click Stop.
Active means that the channel will start automatically during the next restart of iWay Service Manager. If you do not want the channel to start automatically during the next restart of iSM, you must deactivate the channel.
To make a channel active, click the red X in the Active column. To make a channel inactive, click on the green check mark in the Active column. In either case, the Channels pane will refresh and display the changed status in the Active column. Unlike starting and stopping channels, you may only toggle the Active status one channel at a time.
To view the trace log associated with a channel:
The Channel Management pane opens.
The trace log for the selected channel opens.
To visualize a channel:
The Channels pane opens.
A graphical representation of the channel, including the registered channel components, is displayed.
The left portion of the image represents the inlet, the middle portion represents the route, and the right portion represents the outlet.
If you move your mouse cursor over any of the portions in the channel image map, the cursor changes to a hand selection icon. The name of the specific channel component is provided.
These portions of the image map are active areas that allow you to navigate to the channel component that is defined in the Registry. For example, if you click the Inlet / file1 portion of the image, the following pane opens:
After making any changes to the channel components, click Build to rebuild the channel.
Repairing a channel allows you to refresh the current version of a channel that is deployed.
To repair a channel:
The Channel Management pane opens.
The repaired channel is left in the stopped state.
Tip: To repair more than one channel at once, you can select multiple check boxes in the Channel Management pane and click repair.
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