Deploying a Configuration via the Command Prompt

This section describes an alternative approach to installing and configuring a Policy Orchestrator installation. You can use it when you have already configured one installation using the Configuration Manager and you want to deploy the configuration to other installations, for example from the main server installation to the client installations. This approach makes deploying a configuration quicker and more consistent than manually entering all the configuration options at each client.

How this works

After you configure Policy Orchestrator with the Configuration Manager, the configuration process creates the file UC4ICM.ini where it stores the configuration options that you selected. To configure an additional Policy Orchestrator installation, you can use a utitlity that deploys the same configuration settings in the new installation.

Prerequisite

You have installed Policy Orchestrator on at least one server and fully configured it using the Configuration Manager as described in the previous sections in this chapter. This is your "source installation." The configuration steps are described in the following sections:

• Step 1 - Downloading Files and Starting the Installation

• Step 2 - Configuring the Settings

• Step 3 - Connecting the Data Sources and Configuring the EventBases

• Step 4 - Applying the Configuration

Steps:

1. Download Policy Orchestrator to the target server for the second installation.

   1. Go to the Automic Download Center and download the file Policy.Orchestrator_Full_<version number>.zip.

   2. Extract the zipped files to the place that you want to have your secondary installation of Policy Orchestrator, for example to C:\Program Files.

2. From the primary installation, which has already been configured, copy the file <Source_Server>... \<Source_PCO_Installation_Folder>\ConfigurationManager\UC4ICM.ini and paste it to the equivalent folder in your secondary installation:

   <Target_Server>:\... \<Target_PCO_Installation_Folder>\ConfigurationManager\

3. Open a command prompt window and go to the following folder in the target installation:

   ...\<Target_PCO_Installation_Folder>\ConfigurationManager

   

4. Enter UC4InsightConfigurationManagerCLI.exe to start the configuration utility with no parameters.

   The command returns help information with the parameters for the the command options for the parts of the Policy Orchestrator configuration that you can install.

   

   Notice that the parameters correspond to the options on the first page of the Configuration Manager, which you see in Step 1 - Downloading Files and Starting the Installation.

5. Type "UC4InsightConfigurationManagerCLI.exe install" followed by each of the options for the areas of the Policy Orchestrator configuration that you want to install and putting a space before each option, and then press Enter. The options are:

   • -dataloading

   • -modellingstudio

   • -gateway

   • -insight

   • -analysisnode

   For example to install all the areas of the Policy Orchestrator configuration, enter:

   UC4InsightConfigurationManagerCLI.exe install -dataloading -modellingstudio -gateway -insight -analysisnode

   

   The configuration options for those areas are applied to the target installation. This takes a few minutes to complete and for the command prompt to reappear.