SAS 9.1.3 Intelligence Platform: System Administration Guide

136 When to Use the Promotion and Replication Wizards R Chapter 17
Moving Associated BI Content Following a Promotion Job 165
About Moving BI Content 165
Moving Xythos WebFile Server Content 165
Moving Portal Content 167
Redeploying Jobs from SAS Data Integration Studio 167
Performing a Demotion 167
When to Use the Promotion and Replication Wizards
The Replication Wizard and the Promotion Wizard enable you to copy an entire
metadata repository from one host machine to another.
The two wizards are identical, except that the Promotion Wizard enables you to
make modifications to the metadata as you copy it. For example, you can change port
numbers, host names, schema names, and path names.
The Promotion Wizard and the Replication Wizard are useful in situations such as
the following:
3 You have implemented the SAS Intelligence Platform in a production environment,
and you want to use that environment as the basis for creating a test
environment. In the process, you need to make modifications such as changing
your server definitions so that they refer to hosts in the test environment.
3 You have developed a completely new implementation of the SAS Intelligence
Platform in a test environment, and you want to move the new implementation to
a production environment. In the process, you need to make modifications such as
changing your server definitions so that they refer to hosts in the production
environment.
3 After having promoted your metadata from a test environment to a production
environment, you want to refresh the test environment with metadata from the
most current production environment. To do this, you would use the Promotion
Wizard to demote metadata from the target environment back to the source
environment (see “Performing a Demotion” on page 167).
3 You have created a metadata repository for a particular organizational unit, and
you want to create another instance of the repository for another organizational
unit.
CAUTION:
The Promotion Wizard and the Replication Wizard will completely overwrite all of the
metadata in the target environment, including server definitions, library definitions, user
definitions, access controls, personal folders, user-defined portal content, and portal
preferences. R
Because of this behavior, the promotion wizard is useful primarily when you are
creating or refreshing a development environment or test environment based on an
existing production environment, or when you are creating a completely new production
environment based on a development or test environment.
To promote metadata for only selected BI objects (including selected information
maps, reports, stored processes, and data explorations), use BI Manager’s Export and
Import Wizards. For details, see Chapter 18, “Promoting Individual BI Objects,” on
page 169.