Article

vscheuber's picture
article
Reads:

2233

Score:
0
0
 
Comments:

0

Cool Blog: News from the Identity Management Front

Author Info

22 August 2006 - 11:00pm
Submitted by: vscheuber

Author Blog
Author Profile

Tags

Tags Map

(View Disclaimer)

I'm excited about two new features that we have started R&D on for Designer 2.0.

Two weeks ago we started active R&D on snapshotting and staging. Both are enterprise-class features that will greatly help everyone working with Novell Identity Manager.

Snapshotting will allow the user to take snapshots from a Designer project, either locally or, if working in a project team, on a snapshot server. This will provide two main benefits: it will team-enable designer, and it will provide sophisticated backup and restore capabilities. I know that many users have begged for this, and now I can say, "We?re working on it!"

Staging will support the user or a whole project team to take a solution from one stage to the next. All projects operate at least on two stages: test environment and production. Some even take a three-stage approach and divide development and test into two environments. The challenge has always been how to manage to get a finished and tested solution from the development and/or test servers into production, without forgetting a switch here and a flag there, and how to do it quickly and efficiently. Staging will address this issue.

If you feel strongly about either of these two features, join the discussion at:
http://www.novell.com/coolblogs/?p=454


Disclaimer: As with everything else at Cool Solutions, this content is definitely not supported by Novell (so don't even think of calling Support if you try something and it blows up).

It was contributed by a community member and is published "as is." It seems to have worked for at least one person, and might work for you. But please be sure to test, test, test before you do anything drastic with it.



Related Articles


User Comments

© 2012 Novell