An Environment is a logical name given to a group of servers, applications, and technologies which work together to provide a software solution for the purpose of development, testing, or a production implementation. Typical Environments include, but are not limited to, Development (DEV), System Integration Testing (SIT), User Acceptance Testing (UAT), and Production (PROD).

Viewing Environments

To view the list of Environments defined within FlexDeploy, select Topology -> Environments from the menu.

By default, all active Environments are displayed in the search results. To refine the search results, select one or more criteria options and click on the Search button. Select the Any radio button to indicate the search results should include Environments matching any of the specified criteria, or the All radio button to indicate that the search results should only include Environments matching all of the specified criteria. Click on the Reset button to return to the default search criteria form.

Creating/Editing an Environment

To create an Environment, click the Create button. To edit an Environment, select an existing Environment and click the Edit button.

Enter values for the following fields.

Field Name	Required	Description
Environment Id	N/A	System generated identifier (read-only).
Environment Code	Yes	Short name for the Environment.
Environment Name	Yes	Long display name for the Environment.
Description	No	A description of the Environment.
Active	Yes	Whether or not the Environment is active in the system. Defaults to "Yes".
Build Environment	Yes	Identifies whether the Environment is used for builds. Defaults to "No".
Sort Order	Yes	A sort index to control the order in which the Environment is displayed within lists.

Click the Next button to optionally associate Instances to this Environment. Note that this is an optional step since there may not be any Instances created yet. In this case, simply save the Environment and perform the association when creating the Instance. Read about Creating Instances.

Shuttle Instances from Available Instances to Selected Instances to associate them to this Environment. To disassociate Instances from the Environment, shuttle the Instances from Selected Instances back over to Available Instances. As you will see in the next section, you can also associate Environments to Instances through the Instance Wizard.

Click the Save button to save the changes to the Environment and return to the list of Environments.

To inactivate an Environment at any time, select an existing Environment and click the Inactivate button. This will temporarily hide that Environment until, a search is performed where the criteria for Active is switched to "No". To reactivate an Environment, select the desired Environment and click the Edit button. Then change the drop down menu for active to "Yes" and click Save. This Environment is now active in the system again and ready for use.