Migration Overview - Red Hat CERTIFICATE SYSTEM 7.2 - MIGRATION GUIDE Manual

Chapter 2. Migration Overview
The migration process is staged to migrate the different subsets of Certificate System information separately. The general
process is as follows:
1. Install the new Certificate System instances.
2. Migrate the old Certificate System security databases, which contains the key and certificate materials for the server,
to the new Certificate System instances.
3. Migrate the password database information for the old Certificate System to the new Certificate System password
file.
4. Migrate the old Certificate System internal databases, which contain user and group entries, to the new Certificate
System.
5. Migrate customized server configuration data from the old server to the new Certificate System.
6. Renew all migrated certificates.
The Certificate System migration utility contains several separate platform-independent tools, but only two are required
for migrating a Certificate System installation: one program to convert all of the data in an LDIF that was exported from
the older installation into a normalized LDIF text file, and another program to convert the normalized LDIF text file into
an LDIF data file that can be imported into the newer Certificate System.
Certificate System migration export utilities are files named versionToTxt: 41ToTxt, 42ToTxt, 42SP2ToTxt,
45ToTxt, 47ToTxt, 60ToTxt, 61ToTxt, 62ToTxt, 70ToTxt, 71ToTxt, and 72ToTxt. Each export tool con-
tains the following files.
• Two precompiled Java classes
• An tool shell script
• An tool batch script
• The Java source file that produced the precompiled Java classes
• A sample shell script that can compile the source file
• A sample batch script that can compile the source file
The export file to use is determined by the older version of the Certificate System being migrated.
Each compilation batch and shell script is dependent on a specific version of the Java software development kit as defined
in the comments.
Certificate System migration import utilities are files named TxtToversion: TxtTo60, TxtTo61, TxtTo62,
TxtTo70, TxtTo71, and TxtTo72. Each import tool contains the following files.
• Three precompiled Java classes
• An tool shell script
• An tool batch script
• The Java source file that produced the precompiled Java classes
• A sample shell script that can compile the source file
• A sample batch script that can compile the source file
Each compilation batch and shell script is dependent upon a specific version of the Java software development kit as
defined in the comments.
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