The Orchestrator server is responsible for distribution and launch of simple apply/rollback shell scripts in a particular order across multiple servers . If for any reason deployment is failing at a particular stage the process will stop and you can rollback any changes done until then.
In case you want to deploy your code or just call your preferred DSC client to apply the configuration locally the Orchestrator can be a handy tool.
The operation can be started manually or scheduled,...
SPMT is a set of tools providing :
. Catalog management
. Package installation and removal
. RDBMS Backend Database
. XML catalog
. End user WEB based GUI
. Sys admin command line UI
. Security using signature, checksums and integrity control
Will allow web based (Facelet) ant compile/build/deploy script generator and runner unsing a JCR content repository for managing J2EE components in a project environnement. Maybe a little of all this soon...