Validating migration collections

A validation determines whether a migration collection is complete and whether it contains any orphan records or duplicate records that must be deleted. Validations run as background jobs, similar to cron tasks.

About this task

To ensure that a migration collection is complete and that any package definitions that are created from the collection are valid, validate the migration collection. The results of the validation include any orphan records or duplicate records, and any related configurations that you might need to add to the collection.

Orphan records are configurations that were deleted after the migration collection was created.

Duplicate records are configurations that were added to a migration collection, deleted and recreated in the originating application, and then added again to the migration collection. This sequence results in two records that refer to the same configuration.

You can inspect the related configurations to determine whether they can be deleted or need to be added to the collection.

Validations cannot be canceled and must run until they finish. You can perform other tasks during that time.

Procedure

  1. In the Migration Collections application, select the migration collection that you want to validate.
  2. Select the Validate Migration Collection action.
  3. In the Validate Migration Collection window, click Start.
  4. When the validation job finishes, view the orphan records, duplicate records, and related configurations on the Validation Results tab.
  5. Inspect the orphan records and duplicate records and delete them if you do not want them in the collection.
  6. Inspect the related configurations and either delete them or add them to the migration collection.
  7. Save the migration collection.