Remote Administration (RA) follows a specific workflow implemented by automation that takes into account subscription-specific preferences. If you are a Remote Administration customer, setting your application update preferences correctly ensures security updates can be smoothly integrated into your workflow.

Reviewing your RA settings

To review your RA application update preferences, completing the following steps:

• Sign in to the Cloud Platform user interface.
• Select the application whose RA settings you want to view.
• In the left menu, click RA.

Cloud Platform displays the RA update settings in place for your application.

Modifying your RA settings

RA customers have several available update methods, and whichever method you select influences subsequent options.

To modify your RA settings (such as changing your update settings or removing RA from your application), complete the following steps:

• Go to the Remote Administration settings page for your application.
• In the upper right of the page, click the Edit icon.
• In the Update process list, click the update method you want to use with your application, from the following list:
  • Update and Deploy (default): When a security update is required, Acquia creates a new branch from the branch or tag currently deployed to production, applies security updates, and pushes the branch to the repository. 
    The new branch is then deployed to your RA environment for testing. Acquia notifies you using a ticket that the secure branch is available for testing. RA can deploy the updates to production for you, but will not do so without your explicit approval.
  • Inform only: Acquia informs you of pending updates using a security update notification. No further action is taken without your specific request.
  • Do not inform: Acquia does not inform you of any pending updates. No further action is taken without your specific request. Select the Do not inform method if your website uses continuous integration (CI).

• Depending on your selection in the Update process list, Cloud Platform may display additional fields regarding the implementation details for your selected method.

  Update method	Displayed field	Description	Default value
  Update and Deploy	Pause until	Enter a date and time to pause RA until that time. After that time, RA will resume its normal schedule.	not paused
  Update and Deploy	Update type	Select from Core and Core and contributed modules to determine the portions of your application you want to update.  If you have features that depend on certain versions of contributed or custom modules, you can implement a locking functionality to prevent those specific modules from being updated, and then use the Core and contributed modules update method.	Core and contributed modules
  Update and Deploy	Secondary testing environment	Acquia deploys the initial security update branch to the RA environment. After you approve the branch for tagging and final testing, you can have Acquia place this tag on any environment (other than production) for final testing. A fresh copy of the production database will be copied into this environment as a part of this final, pre-production test.

• Click Save.

RA will now use your selected update settings for your application.

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