Create a Software Stack
Note: To delete stacks, see the sagcc delete stacks command in this help. You cannot deprovision stacks.
1. If you must manually install Platform Manager on target nodes (for example, because the user account created to install products does not allow remote access from Command Central), use the same password for every Platform Manager that will be included in the stack you are going to create.
2. Create aliases that specify credentials you will need for the stack. Go to Environments > ALL > Instances > CCE > Command Central Server > Configuration > Credentials, click 
, and follow the steps below. 
If you manually installed
Platform Manager on target nodes, or if you are going to create an infrastructure layer that connects to new remote nodes that are already equipped with
Platform Manager but that are not yet registered in
Command Central, click
User name and password and create an alias for the
Platform Manager credentials.
If you are going to create an Infrastructure layer that creates remote nodes, create these aliases:
Click
User name and password and specify the credentials to use as the Administrator user name and password for the
Platform Managers that will be installed on the remote nodes.
If you are installing on Windows systems, click
User name and password and specify the credentials for the Windows installation user account you created earlier.
If you are installing on UNIX systems, click
User name and password or
SSH private key as appropriate and specify the credentials for the UNIX installation user account you created earlier.
3. Develop and register micro templates for layers that install products, install fixes, and create database components. For instructions, see the template instructions in this help. Micro templates are intended to be modular and reusable; when you create an instance of a layer for a stack, you will be able to override template parameters and customize them for that stack.
4. Create definitions of layers to use in stacks using the methods below. A software stack must have at least one Infrastructure layer and at least one Runtime layer. When you create a layer instance for a stack, the layer definition will show micro template values by default, and you will be able to override these values.
Go to
Environments > ALL > Instances > CCE > Command Central Server > Configuration > Layer Definitions, click
, and provide the requested values.
5. Go to Views > Stacks and click . Add the stack and then add layers. At the end of the wizard, provisioning begins automatically. 6. Software AG requires license keys for some products. Software AG provides license key keys for these products when you first license the product, when you need to replace license keys that are about to expire, or when you need to change your license so you can access different product features.
a. Go to Environments > All > Instances and click the instance or component that requires the license key.
b. Click Configuration, click Licenses, click the license key, click Edit, and click the license key to use.
7. If any product you installed or instance you created has a default password, change that password as soon as possible using the instructions in Administering Software AG Products Using Command Central.
8. Connect the products to their database components using the instructions in the installation guide for your products.