Troubleshooting the Deployment Map

After mapping a project to target servers and groups, Deployer returns to the map > Properties page and the Deployment Map Topology area might show

, which indicate if Deployer has encountered issues with the deployment map, as follows:

Deployer cannot detect dependencies across products. Make sure assets you want to delete are not required by assets of other products.

If you do not address problems at this time, Deployer will write messages about them to the simulation report. If you deploy without addressing problems, Deployer will not deploy the assets identified in the deployment set or delete the assets identified in the deletion set.

For runtime-based deployment sets,

appears in the Referenced Assets column and indicates that you resolved an unresolved dependency using the Exists option, but Deployer has found that the referenced asset does not exist on target servers. Click

to see the missing referenced asset. You can then place the referenced asset on the target servers, or you can return to the project definition stage and re-resolve the dependency in a different way. For more information, see Resolving Dependencies (for runtime-based deployment).

For repository-based deployment projects, Deployer verifies whether the target servers or target groups are available for deployment when you add them to the deployment map. The Status column shows

if the server is available for deployment and

if it is not.

For deletion sets, dependencies work in the opposite direction from deployment sets. Deployer finds all assets on the target servers that depend on assets in the deletion set. If you were to delete the assets in the deletion set from the target servers, the dependent assets would no longer work properly. On the map >Properties page, in the Deployment Map Topology area, therefore, the

icon appears in the Dependent Assets column, and indicates that dependent assets exist. Click

to see the dependent assets, then choose whether to Add the dependent assets to the deletion set or to Remove the assets they depend on from the deletion set.

If you are mapping a runtime-based deployment or deletion set and you resolved dependencies in the previous step, the contents of the deletion set have changed. As a result, you must rebuild the project (see Rebuilding a Build). If you exported the deletion set definition or the project build, you must also re-export the definition (see Exporting and Importing Deletion Set Definitions) and the build (see Exporting and Importing a Build).