Wise Package Studio Reference
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Preflight Deployment
The Preflight Deployment Process
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Quality Assurance module only.
Connection to Preflight Deployment Tools
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Quality Assurance module only.
For Preflight Deployment to work, the Preflight Web applications must be installed on a
Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS) Web server on your network. You must
also ensure that the other requirements for the Preflight Web applications have been
met. (See System Requirements in the Wise Package Studio Getting Started Guide.)
The Preflight Web applications handle the data generated from preflight packages that
you deploy.
Preflight Data Collector Web application
When you create a preflight package using the Preflight Instrumentation tool, you must
specify the URL of the Data Collector Web application. The URL is embedded in the
preflight package so that when it runs, it sends its results to the Data Collector Web
application. Obtain the Data Collector URL from the team member who installed Preflight
Web server
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Preflight Data Collector Web application
collects data and inserts into SQL
database.
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Preflight Analysis Web application
organizes and displays results.
SQL Server
Phase 1:
Use Preflight
Instrumentation to
create a preflight
package based on a
package that you plan
to deploy.
Phase 2:
Deploy the preflight
package to end user
computers using your
own deployment
system.
Phase 3:
Use Preflight Analysis
to view results.
End User Computers: preflight package runs tests
and sends results to Web server.
Preflight
package
Deployment
System
Your
computer
Package to
deploy
Your computer
Use Preflight Analysis tool
to connect to Preflight
Analysis Web application
and view results.
Preflight package:
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Installation changes
disabled.
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Tests added to evaluate
the installation
environment.
