Topology Import and Export Architecture

The topology import and export utilities communicate with the Sun Management Center server through client APIs. The import and export ASCII file resides on the console system. This file provides information through the client APIs to the server. The server sends that information to the topology agent which interacts with the topology database. The following figure shows the software structure that supports these utilities.

Figure 19–1 Software Structure for Importing and Exporting Topology

For export, two modes are provided: Append and Overwrite. In Overwrite mode, the dumped data replaces the contents of an existing file. In Append mode, the dumped data is added to the end of the file.

For import, two modes are provided to process the domain information that is contained in the dumped file. The first mode is to ignore the domain information. All objects are created in the specified or home domain. The second mode is to import domain information together with all other objects. In this case, new domains can be created. All nondomain objects are created in the corresponding domain.