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Managing Site Files

You can use the CA Automation Point Export and Import Utility to help you manage your site files and make backup copies regularly. It is important that you conduct ongoing backups of your CA Automation Point directory so that you can recover your configuration settings and notification policies in the event of hardware failure.

You can use the Export and Import Utility to do the following:

• Restore configuration settings that were lost due to an unforeseen event. For example:
  • Your disk crashes and you want to restore it from a CD.
  • You accidentally change your configuration settings and you want to return to your original settings.
• Save multiple configuration settings based on the needs of different end users. For example, there could be different settings for the following shifts, eliminating the need to change the settings when a new shift begins:
  • Day shift
  • Night shift
  • Weekend shift
• Import a configuration from a different CA Automation Point installation, including a configuration from a previous currently supported release.

  After you perform such an import, you can view an report in HTML format that shows you the following:

  • Imported settings that were automatically changed
  • Settings that you may need to manually change so that they work properly in the new CA Automation Point installation

You can execute the Export and Import Utility from Configuration Manager or from the command line. Executing the utility from Configuration Manager is referred to as interactive mode. Executing the utility from the command line is referred to as unattended mode.

Note: Because the Export and Import Utility requires administrator rights, it is not generally possible to execute it from a rules file. If you try to run the utility from a rules file, the application fails on Windows 2003 Server or displays UAC interactive prompt on Windows 2008 Server. However, if Automation Point Desktop is already running with administrator rights, the Export and Import Utility executed by a rule will already have the required privileges, and performs the required operation.