Exporting and importing server and category patterns
If you have multiple Lenovo XClarity Administrator instances, you can export server and category patterns from one XClarity Administrator instance and import them in another XClarity Administrator instance.
About this task
You can export only server and category patterns. Policies, address pools, and profiles cannot be exported. Exported patterns are dissociated with any reference address pools. To leverage the address pools in an imported pattern, edit the pattern and re-associate the pattern with the pools in XClarity Administrator in which they are imported.
Procedure
To export one or more patterns:
From the XClarity Administrator menu bar, click . The Server Configuration Patterns page is displayed.
Click the Server Patterns or Category Patterns tab.
Select one or more patterns to be exported.
Click the Export icon (
).Click Export to export the patterns.
Save the pattern-data file to your local system.
NoteIf an exported pattern references address pools, these references are removed from the exported pattern to avoid conflicts when the pattern is imported into anotherXClarity Administrator instance. When the pattern is imported again, you can edit the imported pattern and assign the desired address pools.
To import one or more patterns:
From the XClarity Administrator menu bar, click . The Server Configuration Patterns page is displayed.
Click the Import icon (
) to import the patterns. The Import Patterns dialog is displayed.Click Select File, and select a pattern-data file to be imported. Repeat for additional pattern-data files.
Click Import to import the selected files.
A summary report is displayed with a list of patterns that were imported, patterns that were renamed to naming conflicts, and patterns that were skipped because they already exist.