NOTE: This description is in the early stage of being written

Assignment - Rewrite deploy based on settings overwrite

References

All the tasks below need to be done in the order they are specified.
all of the tasks is required to be done in the same iteration, although they can be implemented and tested in parallel with other developments.

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Deployment Manual with reference to existing sections in Installation Manual

Preparation
- make it-config file
- get netarchivesuite zip file
- get and adjust configuration files
deploy
- how to
- what is happening
installation
- how to (including modifications)
- what is happening
start and kill

Settings documentation should only consist in references to xml files in repository.

explation of settings overwrite structure and special deploy configuration settings (levels, install dir etc.)

Reuse deploy code from kb-doms (Royal Library Digital Object Managemnt System code):

Use follwing design:

check input
read minimum default settings that are needed for deploy (e.g. baseDirs)
make physical location objects with from global level in it-config overwritten by specific physical location settings
for each physical location
- make machine objects specified for the location correspong to the mashine OS
- overwrite/add settings for maschine
- for each machine
  - make application objects specified for the machine
  - overwrite/add settings for application
make consistency checks on known listed dependencies (e.g. bitarchives defined as common replicas)
use methods on objects in hierarchy to produce various scripts