If you are running CF Enterprise, you can use the Archive and Deploy system built into the CF Admin. I started using it when we went through Sarbanes-Oxley remediation. I get a ticket for a change, I make the changes, they go through production control processing, then I create an archive on my test system with all of the files I need to deploy to the production system. The archive name is the ticket number. I move the archive to production, deploy it, and I have a history of everything I have done to the system. We don't have any huge clusters, so I do this all machine by machine. My team doesn't like it because it takes longer than other deployment methods, but it creates a very good audit trail, which is important to me.
I could, in theory, have a non-CF person (e.g. a system admin) do the deployment of the archives into production, which would provide another level of separation of duties (big for SOX), but we're not quite there yet. My company's flagship product is a Service Management solution, it does everything you could every dream of and more in that space. It's a really cool product, but it is probably overkill times 100 for what you need. If you are curious you can read all about it on our Web site: www.peregrine.com Rob >I've been following this thread a bit and was wondering if anyone was in the >same boat as I am. > >Right now we run VSS as version control of various CFM's in our test >environment. (VSS isn't necessarily our future as it was here before I was >and it really isn't suited for what we need for the future) > >I have an added dilemma to this. I have two separate production environments >that I have to keep synced with changes. This can become daunting sometimes >figuring out what changes have deployed to what production environment. >Technically they should be synced, but that isn't always the case. It would >be nice to be able to see what's been deployed where at any given time. > >I have more twists in this pretzel but that's the largest... >-I run sql server here and it would be nice to also be able to keep track of >the changes and deployment status of SQL >-A ticketing system that can handle requests from our users and a ticketing >system that can handle internal tickets for our internal fixes and upgrades. > >-A web based interface for the ticketing systems that allows our users to >see only their tickets and their statuses. > >Does something like this even exist??? I am sure I am not the only one in >the universe that needs to keep track of deployment as well as version >control of the actual programs... > >Anyone have any recommendations?? > >Jeff ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:209317 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
