Migrate Performance Dashboards

To migrate Performance Dashboards from a PPM 5 installation to PPM 9.9, please proceed as follows.

Procedure

  1. Identify the directory in which the dashboards of the client of the PPM 5 installation are stored. To do so, open the file Templates_settings.properties in the directory <PPM5_HOME>/config/<client> and find the setting PerformanceDashboard.BaseDirectory.
  2. Copy the .xml files of the dashboards you want to transfer to PPM 9.9 (by default, five .xml files per dashboard with the same name prefix) from the base dashboard directory of the client of the PPM 5 installation to the base dashboard directory of the client of the PPM 9.9 installation <PPM99_DATA>\webapp\WEB-INF\config\<client>\performancedashboards. Do not overwrite existing files (especially files beginning with "_").
  3. Then adapt the settings in the configuration files (_conf.xml). The value for the corbaurl setting must contain the URL of the Corba registry of the PPM 9.9 installation, which is located in the file <PPM99_DATA>\config\Registry_settings.properties under the key CorbaServerURL. If the PPM 5 installation was run using the internal PPM user management and the value of the password box is encrypted, the original password must be reencrypted.
    1. The runpassencryptor.bat program is available for password encryption. Open a command prompt in the <PPM99_CLIENT_RUN>/bin directory. Call the following command.

      runpassencryptor.bat -mode ppm -password <PASSWORD_UNENCRYPTED> –umc

      The program outputs the encrypted password.

    2. Enter the encrypted password in the relevant _conf.xml file in the following format:

      #*+PASSWORD_ENCRYPTED+*#