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Manage applications
This section describes how to create, configure, and manage Deployment Automation applications and their processes.
Note: Before configuring an application, make sure that at least one agent is installed and mapped to a target environment. For details, see Manage resources.
Applications page
Applications bring together components with their deployment targets and orchestrate multicomponent deployments. Application processes automate deployments and rollbacks, and application snapshots manage versions of applications.
To work with applications, navigate to Management > Applications in the Deployment Automation user interface.
The following table describes the main tasks you can do on the Applications page.
| Task | Description |
|---|---|
| View details |
View the following details about an application:
You can sort information by displayed columns. |
| Filter |
Filter applications:
|
| Search | Search applications by name, description, user role, or execution status. |
| Create | To create an application, click the Create button. For details, see Create applications. |
| Import | To import an application, click the Import button. For details, see Import and export applications. |
| Replication | To export replication data for one or more applications, or to import replication data that has been exported from another server, click the Replication button. For details, see Replication. |
| Edit | To modify the application's name, description, notification theme, pipeline, and snapshot components setting, click the Edit icon next to the application. |
| Copy | To copy an application, click the Copy icon next to the application. For details, see Create applications. |
| Inactivate | To deactivate an application, click the Inactivate icon next to the application. To make an application active, click the Show Inactive button, and then click the Activate icon next to the application. |
| Export | To export an application, click the Export icon next to the application. For details, see Import and export applications. |
Clicking the name of an application opens the selected application's page where you can run application and component processes, view deployment history, and further configure the application.
Individual application page
The following table describes the options on an application's page.
| Option | Description |
|---|---|
| Activity | View a graphical roll-up of activity for the
application, including deployment summary, next scheduled deployments,
and deployments to environments by process. |
| Details | To modify the application details, click Edit. |
| Properties |
View and add application properties:
For details, see Add or edit application properties. |
| Components | Add new or existing components to the application. For details, see Add components to applications. To run a process for an application component, click the Run Component Process icon next to the component. To remove a component from the application, click the Remove icon next to the component. |
| Environments | Add new application environments and compare existing ones. For details, see Application environments. |
| Processes | Create an application process. For details, see Create and design application processes. To design an approval process, see Approvals. To view details, duplicate, or deactivate an existing process, click the relevant icon next to the process. |
| Tasks | Create manual tasks that you can later incorporate into an application process. For details, see Create application tasks. |
| Snapshots | Capture information about the application for a given environment, including the component versions, process versions, and properties. For details, see Snapshots. |
| History | View deployment and change history for the application. |
| Security | Set role membership and default permissions for this application. |
| Run | To run application and component processes, click the Run button. For details, see Run application processes and Run component processes. |
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