SAS 9.1.3 Intelligence Platform: System Administration Guide

Using the Promotion and Replication Wizards R Special Considerations for Using the Promotion and Replication Wizards 137
Features and Capabilities of the Promotion and Replication Wizards
Both the Promotion Wizard and the Replication Wizard provide a series of dialog
boxes that guide you through the process of creating a job definition. The dialog boxes
prompt for the following information:
3 the name of the source metadata server and the repository that you want to
promote.
3 the name of the target metadata server.
3 credentials to log on to the source metadata server and the target metadata server.
3 for promotion jobs, the values for any metadata attribute substitutions that should
be made, including values for port numbers, host machine names, schema names,
and paths. For each of these metadata attributes, the wizard displays the values
that currently exist in the source metadata repository. For each value, you can
enter a corresponding substitution. The wizard checks the validity of each
substitution value that you enter.
3 paths for work directories on both the source metadata server and the target
metadata server.
3 the path to a repository backup location on the target metadata server. The
promotion or replication job will back up the existing metadata repository and
place it in this location before replacing it with the promoted or replicated
repository.
3 a name for the job definition.
3 the action to take with the job definition. You can choose to save the job and run it
later, or you can go ahead and run the job and also save the job definition.
Based on the information that you provide, the wizard generates the SAS code that is
necessary to promote or replicate your metadata repository. The code is saved using the
job definition name that you specify. The substitution values that you enter are saved
with the job.
You can create as many different promotion and replication jobs as necessary to
handle different scenarios. The jobs can be rerun at any time, provided that you first
modify the job properties to reflect any changes to the current environment.
Special Considerations for Using the Promotion and Replication Wizards
Before choosing to use the Promotion Wizard or the Replication Wizard, you should
be aware of the following special considerations:
3 The Promotion and Replication wizards will completely replace the metadata
repository in the target environment. This means that all of the metadata in the
target environment will be overwritten, including the following:
3 server definitions
3 library definitions
3 user definitions
3 access controls
3 personal folders that users have created to store reports
3 preferences that users have selected in the SAS Information Delivery Portal
3 portal content (including pages, page templates, portlets, links, syndication
channels, and applications) that users have created or modified