1. Deploying Siebel CRM Containers on Kubernetes using Siebel Cloud Manager
  2. Downloading and Running the Siebel Lift Utility

Downloading and Running the Siebel Lift Utility

The Siebel Lift utility is a command-line utility, developed in Python, that is used for migrating an existing Siebel CRM deployment to the cloud or any CNCF certified Kubernetes cluster. The Siebel Lift utility performs the following tasks:

  • Creates deployment artifacts from your existing on-premises Siebel CRM deployment and stores them in a staging location.

  • Reads the stored artifacts and uploads them to OCI Object Storage to populate the migration pipeline for your Siebel CRM deployment on OCI.

Note: You need the Siebel Lift utility only when you perform a lift operation, which creates and uploads deployment kits from an existing on-premises Siebel CRM deployment.

If you are performing a greenfield deployment of Siebel CRM or Siebel Component Services on OCI, you do not need to download, install, or use the Siebel Lift utility.

The Siebel Lift utility is available on My Oracle Support (MOS) as Siebel CRM 26.8.0.0 Lift Utility (Patch).

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

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

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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