Comments on: Importing/Exporting a WebSphere Profile – The .CAR file

By: Manoji

Manoji — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 11:37:21 +0000

This helped exporting and importing complete server configuration for a standalone WAS server.
The only thing i was wondering is that location of the .ear is in the Cell-Name of the server where i exported the configurations from.
Any views on how we can make sure that the server is deployed in the Cell-Name of the server we are importing it into.

Thanks,

By: Manglu

Manglu — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 06:08:34 +0000

Here is the info from the Infocenter on this space:

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/wasinfo/v6r1/topic/com.ibm.websphere.nd.doc/info/ae/ae/rxml_atconfigarchive.html?resultof=%22%65%78%70%6f%72%74%57%41%53%50%72%6f%66%69%6c%65%22%20%22%65%78%70%6f%72%74%77%61%73%70%72%6f%66%69%6c%22%20

(1) exportWasprofile
Use the exportWasprofile command to export the entire cell configuration to a configuration archive. The exportWasprofile command does not work between the distributed and z/OS platforms.
Note: Only a base server configuration with single node is supported for the exportWasprofile command.

Manglu

By: Manglu

Manglu — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 05:47:07 +0000

Even for WAS this CAR approach (import and export profile) would work only for single server and not for a ND environment.

I don’t know if this has changed recently with WAS V7 but this was true for WAS V6.

Even with WAS there were other restrictions, not all resources could be exported/imported.

This facility is helpful as long as the shortcomings are known.

HTH
Manglu

By: francois

francois — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 09:26:30 +0000

I already use the following link to move WPS 60.0.2 profiles (DMGR and WPS too with keeping all the app conf) http://webspherehelp.blogspot.com/2007/12/steps-involved-in-moving-dmgr-from-one.html

We are working on the installation of a testing and integration platform for WPS based on Solaris with zone duplication, have you got any link about this?

By: Dan

Dan — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 14:57:09 +0000

So I’ve been informed by a little birdie that this likely doesn’t actually work with Process Server but does with Application Server. I haven’t gone throught the steps myself so I can’t comment, but YMMV.