Import projects into a new projects_root directory

This section explains how to import projects from an existing projects_root to a new installation, to help you migrate data on a per-project basis without using the command line.

The import process involves running your existing Validate installation and projects_root concurrently with your new Validate installation and a clean projects_root.

You must have Projects root admin access to import projects.
You cannot run two license servers on one host. Instead, you need to run one license server and point both Validate installations to that license server. See Licensing with multiple projects_root directories.
Both the Validate and Database servers must be assigned fully qualified domain names or IP addresses to be accessible from the target server host during the import process. You cannot use localhost.
  1. After installing the new Validate Server, import any projects that you need from the existing projects_root to the clean projects_root.

    2. If you're installing the new Validate version on the same machine, we recommend stopping your existing server, then restarting it using a different port number. This allows you to maintain the existing port number for the new installation.

  2. Start the servers. See Managing the Validate Servers.

    3. To avoid conflicts, each projects_root running on a machine must use unique ports for its database and web or application servers. To specify the unique host and port number combination during or after installation, run kwservice set-service-property <service-type> <property (host, port)> <value>.

  3. Log in to Validate from a browser using the URL of the Validate server host and port selected during installation (for example, server21:8080).

By default, the person who installed Validate is set as the Validate administrator and given the Projects root admin role.

Basic access control is initally used and does not require a password to log in. For example, if the account jsmith was used during the installation, to log in to Validate with the administrator role, you would enter the username jsmith and leave the password field empty. To learn more about security and authentication methods, see Security and permissions.