Summary
Note: If you are exporting objects that are not release-specific, you can export the folder as is, not as a content package.
Details
CA Process Automation Release 04.2.00 introduces Content Package, a new automation object that is created during one type of export.
Content designers use a content package to bundle the release of a newly automated process such that its component objects cannot be modified by consumers who use the process in the production environment.
Specifically, after designers create, test, and refine a new process, they prepare a folder for export as a content package. In the folder, they assemble the release version of each object that the process uses. This folder must contain all objects used by the process; it cannot contain any unused or obsolete objects. The folder is exported as a content package to secure the release version of the objects after import. The folder structure that you establish for a project in the design environment is replicated in the production environment upon import. An imported content package contains a set of baselined objects for the same release. Users in the destination environment cannot modify the release version values of objects in an imported content package.
Note: For the details about export and import, see "Scenario: Export and Import Objects in a Content Package" in the Content Administrator Guide.
A folder to be exported as a content package contains release-specific objects. Objects can be in the export folder or in a subfolder of the release-specific export folder. Folders contain a process object, all of the objects that use the process, and all objects that the process uses. All objects are marked with the same release version value as the folder release version. For an upgrade, the folder contains changed and unchanged objects. The automation objects that are imported in a content package cannot be modified; their assigned release version cannot be modified.
The recommendation for redistributable content is to use datasets for the configuration parameters. Consider this case: A host group represents hosts with names matching a specified pattern or IP addresses within a specified subnet. An operator Target field can contain an IP address or host name of a host in a host group or it can contain a dataset reference to a host in a host group. In the design environment, the IP address or host name refers to a host used for testing the process.
When you export process objects in a folder as a content package, consider these points:
If an operator Target field contains an IP address or host name of a host used in the design environment, the imported process cannot run successfully. The operator Target entry cannot be modified in the import environment to an IP address of a host used in production.
The content designer can create a dataset variable that stores an IP address. Then, the content designer enters that dataset variable in the Target field for the operator. An administrator in the import environment can update the dataset variable with an IP address value that a host group in the import environment references. The imported process can then run successfully.
A content designer can provide release information for a folder before an administrator exports the folder as a content package. The Release tab contains the Release Version property and a Value field for entry of the release version. Optionally, you can add user-defined properties with values that provide other details about the content package. For example, you can add contact information for the content designer.
A new action Operations_Content_Packages is introduced in CA EEM that allows users or groups to view the Content Packages palette in the Operations tab. This permission is granted to all default groups. When you upgrade CA Process Automation, the users and groups who can use Process Watch can also view Content Packages.
For the details about configuring CA EEM for the Process Automation application, see the Content Administrator Guide.
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