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Verify that the initial deployment is successfully deployed to a cloud environment.
You cannot start an update process to modify the configuration and code of an existing service from a
failed deployment to scale a clustered node.
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The deployed application must have at least one service property or application component property
that is Overridable at Deployment.
Procedure
1 On the Application Services title bar, click the drop-down menu and select Deployments.
2 Select an application deployment that is successfully deployed.
3 From the Operations drop-down menu in the toolbar, select Update.
The Update Profiles page opens.
4 Select Create Update Profile.
The Update Profile dialog box opens.
5 In the Update Type drop-down menu, select Configuration.
6 Name the configuration update process, add a description, and click OK.
In the description, you can add information about the changes included in this update.
7 Click the blueprint image to review the highlighted dependencies between services or application
components.
Note all of the dependent components so that you can create an update script if one does not exist or
modify an existing one.
8 From the Service or Application Component tab, modify the applicable properties and update
scripts.
If the UPDATE and ROLLBACK life cycle stage are defined, then the scripts appear with the
associated service or application component. You must create an update script for the changed and
dependent component.
In the case of a clustered node, if you modify a property of a service or an application component, the
changes are applied to all the nodes of the cluster.
For example, in the Clustered Dukes Bank App if you change the db_password property in the
initialize_db_script application component, the db_password property in the Dukes_Bank_App
depends on the initialize_db_script application component. The update scripts run on both because
initialize_db_script is the changed component and Dukes_Bank_App is the impacted component. The
update script for Dukes_Bank_App runs on all of the nodes of the Appserver cluster.
9 (Optional) Select the Reboot check box if the agent must restart the virtual machine after the update
script runs successfully and click Next.
The update tasks of the changed and affected components appear in the execution plan. The original
execution plan does not appear during an update process.
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