Exporting VIP Enterprise Gateway configuration settings

Use Export Settings and Import Settings to transfer configuration settings from one instance of VIP Enterprise gateway to another.
The Export Settings and Import Settings features help you maintain identical configuration settings on all VIP Enterprise Gateway instances in your environment. These features also help you when upgrading VIP Enterprise Gateway or when rolling back to an earlier version.
Export Settings lets you save the configuration settings of your existing VIP Enterprise Gateway instance. The exported configuration settings are saved as a zip file. VIP Enterprise Gateway provides you the option to encrypt this zip file using a password, if necessary.
If you upgraded to VIP Enterprise Gateway 9.11, the backup file created during the upgrade process also includes an unencrypted copy of the configuration settings file.
Export Settings exports configuration settings for the following VIP Enterprise Gateway Configuration Console options:
  • User stores
  • Proxies
  • Health Check Settings
  • Registration Email settings
  • Syslog
  • Self Service Portal IdP
  • VIP Manager IdP
  • SMTP Server settings
  • LDAP Directory Synchronization (Export Settings does not export the saved configuration settings file)
  • Automatic Business Continuity
  • LiveUpdate
  • Validation Servers, including Tunnel Forwarders, Tunnel Receivers, and all the Validation servers modes
Export Settings does not export the following settings:
  • VIP Enterprise Gateway Console Settings. You must configure the Console Settings in the new VIP Enterprise Gateway instance to point to the host where you are importing the configuration settings.
  • SSL certificates for the Console, VIP Manager IdP, and SSP IdP. As the VIP Enterprise Gateway administrator, you must create these certificates on the target VIP Enterprise Gateway instance if it is to use HTTPS.
  1. To export VIP Enterprise Gateway configuration settings:
  2. In the Configuration Console on the VIP Enterprise Gateway instance from where you want to export the configuration settings, click
    Settings > Export Settings
    .
  3. In the
    Export Settings
    page, click
    Export
    . The VIP Enterprise Gateway configuration settings that you can export appear.
  4. Click
    Next
    .
  5. You are prompted to encrypt the configuration file. To encrypt the file, select
    Encrypt
    , and enter a secure password twice to confirm it. Otherwise, select
    Do not Encrypt
    .
    If you encrypt the file, keep the password in a safe place. You need the password to import the configuration settings later.
  6. Click
    Next
    .
  7. The
    Export Configurations
    page lists the configuration settings that are exported. Click
    Download
    to save the file to your computer.
    Optionally, click
    Download Checksum
    to download the checksum file for the export settings download file. Use the checksum file to verify the integrity of the export settings file during import.
  8. Click
    Finish
    to close the window.
You can now import the configuration settings from this VIP Enterprise Gateway instance to a new instance.