Downloading and Running the Siebel Lift Utility

The Siebel Lift utility is a command-line utility, developed in Python, that is available from SCM. This main functions of this utility are as follows:

Creates deployment artifacts from an existing on-premises deployment of Siebel CRM. Deployment artifacts are created in a staging location.
Reads the stored artifacts you created and uploads them to OCI Object Storage to populate the migration pipeline for your Siebel CRM deployment on OCI.

Note: The Siebel Lift utility is only for deployments that involve performing the "lift" operations of creating and uploading deployment kits from an existing on-premises deployment of Siebel CRM. If you are performing a greenfield deployment of Siebel CRM on OCI, then you do not need to download, install, or use the Siebel Lift utility.

After you download the Siebel Lift utility and perform preparatory steps, you run the utility to do the following:

Introspect, validate, and archive the required Siebel CRM artifacts from the Siebel CRM on-premises environment. This step is also referred to as creating deployment kits.

These artifacts include application artifacts (the Siebel configuration, Web files, the Siebel File System, and others) and Siebel database artifacts. The artifacts are archived in TAR files and placed in a staging location in the on-premises environment. The archived artifact files are also referred to as deployment kits.
Upload the deployment kits into OCI Object Storage.

Note: You can perform one or both of these operations (create and upload) in a single execution of the Siebel Lift utility, or perform creation of artifacts in one execution and upload of artifacts in another.

The staging location is where the deployment kits will be created in the required format at the time of executing the Siebel Lift utility. When you execute the utility to create deployment kits, the staging location must be empty in order to avoid any duplication. The staging location must only contain artifacts that need to be uploaded. The staging location must be accessible from the computer where you execute the utility.

You can download, install, and run the Siebel Lift utility in container mode or in non-container mode.

In either container mode or non-container mode, you can run the Siebel Lift utility in silent mode or in interactive mode. When you use silent mode, you specify a response file that you have prepared. Similarly, when you run the utility in interactive mode, you can use input files to provide values for database settings or OCI settings.

For more information about requirements for the Siebel Lift utility, see Requirements and Limitations for OCI Deployments.

Note: If you use the tasks in Downloading and Running the Siebel Lift Utility (Container Mode) (Linux only), then do not perform the tasks for non-container mode.

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