Creating Lifecycle Stages
A lifecycle model can contain one or more stages. Typically, stages are used to represent a clearly-defined deployment scenario within an object's development cycle. You could, for example, decide to use the lifecycle model during various stages of a product lifecycle such as development, test and production. The individual stages are also usually deployed on different physical machines, which is normal practice if for example you have a test environment and a production environment. Each stage you define contains all of the states of the model.
To create a lifecycle stage
1. In CentraSite Control, choose Administration > Lifecycles > Stages.
2. Click Add Stage. The Add Stage dialog opens.
3. Enter values for the dialog fields as follows:
Fields Name | Contents |
Name | The stage name. Here you can enter any text string as the name of the stage. |
Description | (Optional) A description of the purpose of the stage. |
Host Name | The name of the HTTP host machine where the lifecycle stage is deployed on a CentraSite installation. |
Host Port | The HTTP port number of the CentraSite installation on the host machine where the lifecycle stage is deployed. |
Use SSL | Mark this checkbox if the communication with the specified host machine should use the SSL protocol for secure communication. |
4. Click OK.
