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We are moving all Appian stuff (Code, existing Users and existing processes inst
shanmukhaprasads
over 8 years ago
We are moving all Appian stuff (Code, existing Users and existing processes instances) from one environment to other environment. We know how to move the code point of view but how can we move existing users, process instances and reports ?
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Mike Cichy
Appian Employee
over 8 years ago
Just to clarify, you are moving to a different host, correct? If that is the case, you will have migrate all the kdbs, documents, etc. to the new host (and primary DB if you co-host). See the upgrade guide (
forum.appian.com/.../Upgrade_Guide.html)
for a complete list of migration files.
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shanmukhaprasads
over 8 years ago
Yes exactly,thank you. I'll have a look.
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shanmukhaprasads
over 8 years ago
Mike ,Have question ,I don't see any Details about existing users and running processes instances which are not yet shutdown. Can we get all existing user accounts and process instances by doing all these things ?
Thanks much
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shamec
over 8 years ago
Yes by moving the KDBs and the external data for the primary Appian datasource you will get everything including the code, users and running process instances so you won't need to do a code deployment either. Assuming your target environment is already setup and running then you don't need to worry about the configuration steps and such. In that case here will be the high level steps you need to do - we recently did this to migrate our existing environments to 3 new environments:
1. Checkpoint Appian Engines on the source environment - Run <APPIAN_HOME>/server/_scripts/checkpoint-suite.bat (.sh)
2. Copy the highest numbered KDBs to some backup location -
forum.appian.com/.../Upgrade_Guide.html
3. Copy other Appian filesystem data to the backup location -
forum.appian.com/.../Upgrade_Guide.html
4. Take a snapshot of your Appian schema (primary datasource) in your external DB (this contains things like record type definitions and news feed entries)
5. Shutdown Appian engines and the app server on your target environment -
forum.appian.com/.../Upgrade_Guide.html
6. Restore the Appian schema on your target primary datasource with the snapshot from step 4
7. Copy over KBD and filesystem data from steps 2 and 3 above to corresponding locations on your target environment. Make sure the copied over KDBs are the highest numbered ones on the target environment as well.
8. Bring your target environment back up, steps 13 - 18 as laid out in the upgrade guide -
forum.appian.com/.../Upgrade_Guide.html
We did this for Appian 7.11 running on Weblogic Server...
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shanmukhaprasads
over 8 years ago
Thank you very much Shamec for taking to write all the steps. I really Appreciate. We have already deployed half of the code. Shall i remove them and do transfer all kdb's through SFTP would solve even code problem ?
Thanks again.
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shamec
over 8 years ago
Just transfer the KDBs and the DB data - that will basically overwrite whatever is already existing so you don't need to delete your partially moved code manually
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shanmukhaprasads
over 8 years ago
Got it. Thank you. We having extra authentication before bypassing to Appian system , that authentication is accepting only CAPS usernames(Ex:- ABC) . Is there any way to change all users into CAPS in Appian system so that we will not have any User Case Sensitive problem.
Thanks Much
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shamec
over 8 years ago
That's quite a problem and I'm not sure there is a simple solution to that. You will probably need to work with Appian Support - check out this page
forum.appian.com/.../kb-1089.html
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narasimhaadityac
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over 8 years ago
Hi Shanmukh, Kindly pay attention to the note:
Note: Renaming users using this method is resource intensive, because it acts as a simple search and replace in every engine in Appian. These steps must be executed during off-hours.
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shanmukhaprasads
over 8 years ago
Thank you Shamec , Narasimha . I didn't understood " it acts as a simple search and replace in every engine in Appian" Can you please brief about this ?
Thank you
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