You can use the BAR file management functions to maintain the set of BAR files within
your App Connect Dashboard instance.
About this task
The backup and restore function enables you to collectively export all BAR files to an archive
file and subsequently use that archive to restore all the BAR files to your App Connect Dashboard instance. The backup and restore function is useful when
deploying a new dashboard, and provides a full recovery mechanism.
As an alternative to creating an integration server from the Servers page, you can import a BAR
file for storage, and then deploy it whenever you choose. You can also update an existing BAR file,
or delete it if it's no longer needed.
Procedure
- From the App Connect Dashboard UI, click the BAR
files icon .
The BAR files
page opens, with a list of BAR files that have been
deployed as integration servers, and any BAR files that have been imported, but not deployed.
- Complete any of the following tasks:
- To back up the collection of BAR files, click the Backup icon . An archive (named
ACE-BAR-Backup.tar.gz) of all the files is downloaded to your browser's
configured location. You can subsequently use this archive to restore the files to the same or a
different App Connect Dashboard instance.
- To restore the BAR files that were backed up to an archive, click the
Restore icon . Add the ACE-BAR-Backup.tar.gz file to the
Restore
panel, and click Restore. The files are added with a
Not deployed
status, and can be separately deployed as integration servers from the
Servers page or Integrations page.
- To import a BAR file, click Import BAR. Add the file to the
Drag and drop a BAR file or click to upload
panel, and click
Import. The file is added with a Not deployed
status, and
can be deployed as an integration server from the Servers page or
Integrations page.
- To replace an existing BAR file with an updated file of the same name, open the options menu
for the file and click Update BAR.
Then add the updated file to the Update BAR panel and click
Update. If the existing version of the BAR file is already deployed, any
integration server deployments that are using that file are restarted on a rolling basis, because at
least one replica is always running, to avoid downtime.
- To delete a BAR file, open the options menu for the file and click Delete
BAR. No confirmation is required.