A part of the Active Roles database, the Management History data storage is empty after you have configured the Administration Service with the option to create a new database. During import of configuration data, Configuration Center transfers only the administrative right assignments, policy definitions, administrative view settings, workflow definitions and other parameters that determine the Active Roles work environment. Management history data is excluded from the import operation to reduce the time it takes to upgrade the configuration of the Administration Service.

The Management History data describes the changes that were made to directory data via Active Roles. This includes information about who did what and when it was done as applied to the directory data management tasks. The Management History data is used as a source of information for the change history and user activity reports. In addition, the Management History data storage holds information about various tasks related to approval workflow and temporal group membership.

After configuring the Administration Service with the option to create a new database, and importing the configuration data from an existing database, you must take additional steps to transfer the Management History data from that database to the new database. Configuration Center provides the Import Management History wizard to perform this task.

The Import Management History wizard populates a new storage of Management History data with the data found in an existing Active Roles database, to make the data available to the Active Roles user interfaces after your configure a new Administration Service instance. The wizard merges the Management History data from the source database with the data stored in the destination database.

Although importing Management History data looks similar to the task of importing configuration data, there are important differences:

• Due to a much larger volume of Management History data compared to configuration data, importing Management History data takes much longer than importing configuration data.

• As Management History data has dependencies on configuration data (but not vice versa), you must import configuration data first. You can import Management History data after that if needed.

Because of these considerations, Configuration Center provides a different wizard for importing Management History. The distinctive features of the Import Management History wizard are the following:

• The wizard does not replace the existing data in the destination database. It only retrieves and upgrades Management History records from the source database, and then adds the upgraded records to the destination database.

• The wizard allows you to specify the date range for the Management History records you want to import, so you can import only records that occurred within a particular time frame instead of importing all records at a time.

• Canceling the wizard while the import operation is in progress does not cause you to lose the import results, so you can stop the import operation at any time. The records imported by the time that you cancel the wizard are retained in the destination database. If you start the wizard again, the wizard imports only records that were not imported earlier.

To start the Import Management History wizard, click Import Management History on the Administration Service page in the Configuration Center main window. During the import operation, the wizard retrieves and upgrades Management History records from the source database, and adds the upgraded records to the destination database.

For more information, see Importing Management History data in the Active Roles Quick Start Guide.