Migrating Active Roles configuration with the Configuration Transfer Wizard
For large enterprises which implement a complex administrative structure using Active Roles, one of the greatest challenges becomes exporting Active Roles configuration from a test environment to a production environment.
With Active Roles Configuration Transfer Wizard, you can export Active Roles configuration objects (such as Access Templates, Managed Units, Policy Objects, Policy Type objects, and so on) to an XML file, then import them from that file to populate another instance of Active Roles. The export and import operations provide a way to move configuration objects from a test environment to a production environment.
Configuration Transfer Wizard includes the following components, all installed during the setup process of Configuration Transfer Wizard:
Configuration Collection Wizard is intended to collect the Active Roles configuration data in a source environment. During the collection process, the selected Active Roles configuration objects are packed into an XML file, called "configuration package".
Configuration Deployment Wizard is designed to deploy a configuration package, earlier created with the Configuration Collection Wizard, in a destination Active Roles environment. When deploying the configuration data, the target Active Roles instance is populated with the configuration objects collected from the source Active Roles instance.
