Package Manager

The Package Manager page displays a summary of the packages that have been created. For each package, it presents basic information about the package and a set of actions you can perform on the package. For each package, the summary list provides the following information:

Note: In a Platform where Delegated Administration is enabled, the names of packages may contain prefixes. For details, refer to Names of Objects in DA Units.

What you are allowed to do in this page and whether you can even see a certain package depends on privileges associated with your user login name, the package, and the models targeted by the package. Here are two examples:

Note: If no user groups were added to a package privilege, only the user who created the package and the Platform administrator will have that privilege for that package.

Procedures from this page

From this page, you can filter the list of packages shown; create a package, edit a package, publish a package, deploy a package, delete a package, and view package contents and the assets to which that package was deployed.

Click the title of a procedure to display it; click the title again to hide the procedure:

To filter the list of packages

1. Click Filters to show the filter boxes, if not shown.

2. To view all packages, click Filter without typing any search values.

3. To perform a search of the Axeda® Platform, do one or more of the following and then click Filter:

§ In the box above the Name column, type all or part of the name of the package(s) you want to find.

§ In the box above the Version column, type all or part of the version you want to find.

§ In the box above the Model column, select a model to include in the search.

§ In the box above the Published column, select the published status (Yes or No) to include in the search.

§ In the box above the Last Updated By column, select the user (who last edited the package) to include in the search.

The Axeda® Platform finds all packages that contain the search value(s) defined and shows only those packages in this table.

To create a package

1. Below the table, click Create Package.

2. In the New | Package wizard, create the package by providing the information for which you are prompted.

To edit a package

1. In the Packages table, select the package to edit. If you want to filter the list of packages to show only those packages for a specific model, select the model name and click Filter. (Only models to which you have privileges appear for the filter selection.)

2. In the Edit | Package wizard, type and select the new values for the package.

To publish a package

In the Actions column for the package you want to publish, click Publish. The Platform asks you to confirm the action and then disables the Edit and Publish actions.

To deploy a package

In the Actions column for the package you want to deploy, click Deploy. This action starts the Deploy Package wizard at Step 2 (because you have already selected the package).

To delete a package

In the Actions column for the package you want to delete, click Delete. The Platform asks you to confirm the deletion and then removes the package from the summary list and from the database.

To display the contents of a package

To review the contents of a package, click the package name in the summary list. The contents appear in the lower part of the page (scroll to view them after the page refreshes).

Two sections appear for the package, Package Summary and Successfully Deployed Assets.

In the Package Summary section, package information is organized in the following groups:

§ Package Information - Lists the general information entered during Step 1 of the Package Creation wizard: the Name, Version, Description, and Model for the package. In addition, this list provides the date and time of the last modification to the package and whether or not the package has been published, as well as any expiration date set for the package. If the package has expired, the "Expires On" entry specifies that the package has expired.

§ Dependencies - If applicable, lists the conditions that must be met before the agent processes the instructions. For each condition, this list provides the Name and the settings of any parameters specific to the dependency. For example, if the package creator selected a Data Item dependency, the name of the Data Item, the comparison operator, and the value to test against are listed here.

§ Instructions - Lists the operations to be performed by the agent when processing the package. For each operation, this list provides the Name and the settings of any parameters specific to the operation. For example, for the Download File instruction, the list shows the file name, size, path, and, as applicable, the actions to take on the file (Unpack, Execute, Overwrite).

§ Rollback - If applicable, lists the operations to be performed in the event that the agent encounters an error that stops the processing. For each operation, this list provides the Name and the settings of any parameters specific to the operation. For example, for the Restart operation, the list shows whether the restart is a hard or soft restart.

In the Deployed Assets section, the application displays a list of the assets that belong to the Model group selected during package creation.

Tip

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