Duplicating Configuration From One Instance To Another - Red Hat CERTIFICATE SYSTEM 7.1 - ADMINISTRATOR Administrator's Manual

Configuration Files
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Duplicating Configuration From One Instance to
Another
If you have deployed a large number of CS instances that are identical—for example,
multiple Registration Managers—and you want all these instances to have the same
configuration, you can accomplish this by configuring one of the instances and then
replacing the configuration files of the other instances with the one that contains the
required configuration.
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You can create as many instances of an implementation as you like; each instance
must have a unique name. To do this, you would copy all of the parameters
belonging to the module used to create the instance. Change the name of each of
these parameters to the new name for this instance, and then change the value of all
the parameters as is appropriate for your needs.
All policy-specific information, such as registered policy plug-in implementations,
configured rules, and ordering, appear in the Policy section of the configuration
file.
Each registered policy plug-in module is identified by its implementation name
and the corresponding Java class.
Each configured rule of a policy module is identified by the name specified when
the rule was created.
You can create multiple rules out of an implementation; each rule must have a
unique name. To do this, you would copy all of the parameters belonging to the
module used to create the instance. Change the name of each of these parameters
to the new name for this instance, and then change the value of all the parameters
as is appropriate for your needs.
Be careful when replacing configuration of one instance with another. The
configuration file for an instance contains instance-specific parameters. If
you replace these parameters, the instance will fail to start or function
properly.