Administering Solution Designer Deployment

4 Administering Solution Designer Deployment

This chapter provides information about Solution Designer administration tasks.

Overview of Solution Designer Administrative Tasks

Solution Designer administration tasks include day-to-day tasks of maintaining and managing Solution designer cloud native instances and its users.

You perform the following tasks as an administrator:

Start, stop, and restart a Solution Designer instance. See "Starting, Stopping, and Restarting Solution Designer Instance" for more information.
Upgrade a Solution Designer instance. See "Upgrading Your Solution Designer Instance" for more information.

Starting, Stopping, and Restarting Solution Designer Instance

The Solution Designer cloud native toolkit provides scripts for managing your Solution Designer instances.

To create or start a Solution Designer instance, run the following command:
```
$OCSCD_CNTK/scripts/create-instance.sh -i ocscd -s $SPEC_PATH
```
To stop all the Solution Designer instances, run the following command:
```
$OCSCD_CNTK/scripts/delete-instance.sh -i ocscd
```

To restart the complete instance, run the following command:

$OCSCD_CNTK/scripts/restart-instance.sh -i ocscd -s $SPEC_PATH -r full

Upgrading Your Solution Designer Instance

You upgrade your Solution Designer instance in the following scenarios:

To scale down, use the following command:
```
$OCSCD_CNTK/scripts/scale-down.sh -m full 
```

To scale up the instance, use the following command:

$OCSCD_CNTK/scripts/update-instance.sh -i ocscd -s $SPEC_PATH

To upgrade a Solution Designer instance, run the following command:

$OCSCD_CNTK/scripts/update-instance.sh

For details about upgrading your Solution Designer environment, see "Upgrading Solution Designer Environment" in Solution Designer Installation Guide.