You use the Migration wizard to migrate (copy) applications and databases across Essbase Server instances. You can migrate to any platform supported by Essbase. For example, you can migrate an application from a Windows development server to a UNIX production server.
When you migrate an application, the source application is unaffected, and the source and target servers experience no downtime.
This topic contains the following sections:
To use the wizard, you must have Create/Delete Applications permissions for the source and target Essbase Server instances. To migrate users and groups, you must also have Create/Delete Users and Groups permissions for the target Essbase Server instance. An Essbase Server instance cannot be both source and target, and the target Essbase Server release must be the same as or later than the source Essbase Server release
Before using the wizard:
Be sure that the target server is running.
Back up the databases to be migrated.
The following topics describe how to launch and use the wizard: