This section provides an overview of the dynamic application update feature.
Symphony’s dynamic application update feature facilitates the administration of service packages and their associations with applications. The Symphony application update features allow you to:
Deploy an updated service package without stopping the current workload.
Dynamically update or remove session type and service sections from the application profile without stopping the current workload. Only sessions using the removed sections are affected.
Dynamically add session type and service sections to the application profile without stopping the current workload.
Deploy a service package to any level of the consumer tree allowing the service to be shared with all consumers below this level. This enables service packages to be shared among multiple applications linked by the downward path of the consumer hierarchy.
The following table offers guidelines for choosing the right method to perform typical application updates. Within this table, the term workload is defined as existing running tasks and sessions associated with the application that is being updated.
Refer to Update an existing service package |
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Refer to Add a new service and session type |
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You no longer need a service or session type and want to remove it from an application. Refer to Remove a service/session type |
Any session that uses the removed service or session type is aborted. |