webMethods Deployer is a tool you use to deploy user-created assets that reside on source webMethods runtimes or repositories to target webMethods run-time components (runtimes). For example, you might want to deploy assets you have developed on servers in a development environment (the source) to servers in a test or production environment (the target).

With Deployer, you can deploy user-created assets such as Integration Server packages. However, you cannot deploy webMethods components that have been installed by the Software AG Installer as part of a product. If you want such components to reside on target runtimes, you must install them using the Software AG Installer. However, you can partially deploy system (Wm*) packages for some webMethods adapters, such as the adapter packages for WmAS400, WmSAP, WmJDBCAdapter, and WmMQAdapter. In partial deployment of system packages, configurations or artifacts that reside in the system packages on the source server can be deployed to the target server. To determine if system packages can be partially deployed for a particular product, refer to the product documentation.

Deployer is installed on Integration Server. This help can refer to Integration Server as the host server for Deployer, and as a runtime from which you can deploy assets using Deployer. You can also use Microservices Runtime as the host server, and as a runtime from which you can deploy assets.

Deployer supports two scenarios for deploying assets: