Exporting and importing the Dynamic Workload Console settings

You can export the Dynamic Workload Console settings repository from an existing Dynamic Workload Console instance to create a file, in XML format, that can be imported into another Dynamic Workload Console node.

About this task

If you want to maintain the same settings you had in your previous version Dynamic Workload Console, then you can export them to a file and import them into the new installation of the Dynamic Workload Console, at the latest product version level.

To export the Dynamic Workload Console settings from the previous installation and import them into the new installation, follow the procedure.

Note: The migration of the roles from the Dynamic Workload Console Version 9.4 to Version 10.2 is not supported. The user have to recreate the roles in the latest version.
To export the settings from a Dynamic Workload Console, perform the following procedure.

Procedure

  1. Log in to the Dynamic Workload Console.
  2. From the navigation toolbar, click Administration > Manage Settings.
  3. In the Manage Settings page, click Export settings to save the console settings to an XML file in a directory of your choice.
  4. Create a new High Availability configuration using the stand-alone server, or join it to an existing configuration.
  5. Import the previously exported data to any node in the High Availability configuration by doing as follows:

    In the Manage Settings page, click Import settings and browse to the XML file containing the data you want to import.

What to do next

Import the settings file into the new Dynamic Workload Console installation.