Welcome
Modeling software deployment
Modeling software deployment in HCL Launch includes configuring components and component processes and adding those components to applications. Then, you use processes to deploy the components to environments.
Application templates
With an application template, you can save and reuse a collection of resources, environments, processes, and tagged components or component templates to create a standardized application.
Exporting application templates
Exporting a template creates a JSON file (file extension .json) that contains the template's configuration information, resource templates, environment templates, approval processes, application processes, and generic processes.

Welcome
Welcome to the HCL Launch 7.1.1 documentation, where you can find information about how to install, maintain, and use HCL Launch.
Release information
Overview
This section provides overview and getting started information.
Tutorials
Tutorials are available for every experience level.
Installing
An HCL Launch installation consists of the HCL Launch server, a database, and at least one agent.
Upgrading and migrating
Learn how to upgrade HCL Launch elements, including the server, agents, and blueprint design server, and how to migrate data.
Uninstalling
Learn how to uninstall an HCL Launch server, agent, or blueprint design server.
Integrating
HCL Launch supports integrations with other IBM® products, products from others, and certain cloud systems.
Administering
Learn how to administer settings in HCL Launch elements and communication between the elements.
Managing security
HCL Launch uses a flexible team-based and role-based security model that maps to your organizational structure.
Modeling software deployment
Modeling software deployment in HCL Launch includes configuring components and component processes and adding those components to applications. Then, you use processes to deploy the components to environments.
- Components
  Components represent deployable items along with user-defined processes that operate on them, usually by deploying them.
- Resources
  A resource is a logical deployment target that typically resolves to an agent and a user-defined construct that is based on the architectural model of HCL Launch.
- Applications
  Applications are responsible for bringing together all the components that must be deployed together.
- Application environments
  An environment is a user-defined collection of resources that hosts an application.
- Application templates
  With an application template, you can save and reuse a collection of resources, environments, processes, and tagged components or component templates to create a standardized application.
  - Creating application templates
    Define application templates so that users can create applications that contain the types of components, the environments, and the resource tree that you specify.
  - Creating applications from application templates
    Create an application from a template to apply a set of tagged components, environments, and the specified resource tree to the application.
  - Creating environment templates
    When you create an application template, you can define environment templates that model environments for the applications that you create by using the application template.
  - Exporting application templates
    Exporting a template creates a JSON file (file extension .json) that contains the template's configuration information, resource templates, environment templates, approval processes, application processes, and generic processes.
  - Importing application templates
    If you exported an application template, you can import the template to a different server. When you import an application template, you can create an entirely new template or upgrade an existing one.
- Application processes
  Application processes, like component processes, are created with the process editor. You use application processes to deploy or to roll back components.
- Application blueprints
  An application blueprint maps application components to a resource template. When you create an environment or provision one from the cloud, you can use the blueprint as a model.
- Snapshots
  A snapshot is a collection of specific versions of components and processes. Typically, a snapshot represents a set of component versions that are known to work together. In most cases, snapshots include all of the components in an application.
- Creating manual application tasks
  A manual application task interrupts an application process until manual intervention is done. To create a manual task, add a manual step to an application process and select a notification template.
- Approval process
  You can add approval requirements to deployments. Deployments with approvals cannot be completed until all approvers respond. Approvers can respond to requests on the Work Items tab, or by email.
- Inventories
  You use different inventories to track installed components and properties in HCL Launch elements.
- Processes
  Processes are automated tasks that run on agents.
- Statuses
  Create and apply statuses to track component inventory states or to track component versions in environments and resources.
- Properties
  Properties are variables that store information about many different elements, including components, environments, processes, and applications. You can also set global properties for the system.
- Tags
  A tag is a user-defined, shared, short label that you use to classify, view, and conduct operations on objects such as applications, components, agents, and resources.
Deploying
Learn how to deploy applications in HCL Launch.
Reporting
provides several different deployment and security reports.
Extending product function
Learn how to extend the function of HCL Launch.
Troubleshooting and support
Learn how to troubleshoot some common issues with HCL Launch.

Exporting application templates

Exporting a template creates a JSON file (file extension .json) that contains the template's configuration information, resource templates, environment templates, approval processes, application processes, and generic processes.

About this task

To move application templates between servers, you can export the template and import it on a different server. When you import an application template, all resource templates, environment templates, approval processes, application processes, generic processes, and tags that it uses are also imported.

When you export components, applications, processes, or templates, and then import them on a different computer, the same versions of the same plug-ins must be installed on both computers.

Note: Exporting application templates in this way includes only the most recent version of each embedded application process.

For information about JSON, see the JSON website.

Procedure

Go to the Application Templates pane (Applications > Templates).
In the same row as the application template to export, click Actions > Export.
In the default download location for your browser, a file with the same name as the application template is saved. For example, if the application is named JPetStore, the JSON file is named JPetStore.json.

What to do next

You can import the application to another server that uses the same version of HCL Launch. See Importing application templates.