Migrating your development environment side-by-side

You migrate your existing development version of Decision Server Insights by installing the new version in Installation Manager and then running a script to migrate your existing servers.

Before you begin

Specify the repository locations for Decision Server Insights V8.10.new in the Installation Manager preferences.

About this task

You must use Installation Manager to install the new version of Insight Designer, host by host.

If you want to update a server that you customized in a previous version, do not uninstall this version. You must make a copy of the usr directory within your existing installation so that you can use it in your new installation of Insight Designer. Use the WLP_USER_DIR variable to locate the directory for your new installation.

Note:

If you do not want to set the WLP_USER_DIR environment variable, you can set the external location for WLP_USER_DIR by editing the server.env file in <InstallDirV8.10.new>/runtime/wlp/etc.

You can then run the migration script to modify the server.xml, objectgrid.xml, and objectGridDeployment.xml files.

Procedure

Copy the existing <InstallDirV881/V89x/V810x>/runtime/wlp/usr directory to a new location and set the WLP_USER_DIR environment variable to that path.
Install the new development environment. Follow the instructions in Installing components on a single workstation.
Run the migration script in the new installation to update the server configuration files.
- <InstallDirV8.10.new>/runtime/ia/bin/migrateConfig.bat on Windows
- <InstallDirV8.10.new>/runtime/ia/bin/migrateConfig on Linux®

Results

Tip: If you decide to move the migrated servers to <InstallDirV8.10.new>/runtime/wlp/usr/servers, make sure that you either remove the WLP_USER_DIR environment variable or set it to the current location. Similarly, the server.env file must be restored when you change the external location for WLP_USER_DIR.

What to do next

When the development environment is updated, you can migrate your solutions.