Creating a staging server

Note: The staging server needs to be federated using the same deployment manager as the production server. Otherwise, the managed files will not be propagated into the production EAR because the deployment manager is not aware of the production node. You can use the FileProp utility to determine whether the environment is federated. If the environment is federated, the FileProp utility propogates the files to the production server. If the environment is not federated, the FileProp utility places the names of new and changed files into the FileProp log file and you must manually copy the managed files from the staging server to the production server.