This topic describes staging information to help you understand the Master and Satellite scenario in the upcoming topics. Information such as location of databases, software application name and versions, delimiter usage, and other details give the scenario depth to build a useful example.
This scenario includes two independent databases: one is located in Boston, Massachusetts (MA), and the other is in Chicago, Illinois (IL). These two sites concurrently develop version 2.0 of a software application that displays "Hello world". This scenario uses a release value of hello/2.0. The first release of the application was developed and released by the Boston site. A released baseline for this was created using a release of hello/1.0 and has a member project of hello/1.0.
Each site develops a part of the application and maintain its own integration prep project. The Master and Satellite methodology is used. MA is the master and controls the master integration and released projects. IL is the satellite.
These assumptions are made:
- The sites use the same, or nearly the same, model.
- Both sites use the default DCM delimiter ("#").
- Both sites use the default release delimiter ("/").
- Both sites use task-based CM.
- Both sites use a hello/2.0 release value using the Distributed process.
- Both sites use automatic receive, and security is set up at each site to support automatic receives.
- DCM sends e-mail notification to both the Boston and Chicago DCM managers when it generates or receives a transfer package.
- The sites are connected by a wide area network that lets them transfer data using remote copy commands.