Jedox Migration – Moving from one Server to another

Let’s imagine that we want to do a server upgrade to our current Jedox installation; that is, going from Server A (which is our current Jedox environment) to Server B.

Let’s start with Server B

1. Install everything necessary for Jedox to run (i.e. Java,).

2. Install Jedox (guide).

The beauty of this, is that the installation is a completely new one; so you can even upgrade to the latest version.
Remember to enable the same features that your current Jedox environment has (i.e. Drill Through).
Also, at these point, there’s no need to worry about the Licence yet.

3. Check that Jedox is running, and all of the services are up.

4. Stop Jedox, so we can change some of the configuration files later.

Let’s go to Server A

1. Grab a copy of the following folders:

Data folder (including all of the folders inside, specially the System folder).
ETL folder
Web folder

If you don’t have a backup folder, you will need to stop the services in order to make a copy of these folders.

2. Copy the following lines from palo_config.xml and config.php

<Jedox Installation>\httpd\app\etc\config.php:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<palo_configuration xmlns="http://www.jedox.com/wss" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
  <server>
<host>127.0.0.1</host>
<port>7777</port>
  </server>
<secret>sometext</secret>
  <subset_cache size="500" treshold="50" timecheck="1000" disabled="no"/>
</palo_configuration>

<Jedox Installation>\core\palo_config.xml:

// shared secret - needs to be 16 chars long
define('CFG_SECRET', 'sometext');

// palo
define('CFG_PALO_HOST', '127.0.0.1');
define('CFG_PALO_PORT', '7777');
define('CFG_PALO_USER', '_internal_suite');
define('CFG_PALO_PASS', 'some_password');

3. Copy the Data, Web and ETL folders from Server A to Server B (replace what’s necessary) to Server B.

Let’s go back to Server B

1. Change the CFG_SECRET and CFG_PALO_PASS in both palo_config.xml and config.php files to match Server A details.

2. Remember to copy any other files with custom configurations, for examples: sep.inc.php, httpd.conf or any other manually modified (just remember the ones originally changed).

3. Start Jedox.

After that, the Server B will have the same Databases (including all of the cubes), ETL projects and Web Reports. Also, it will carry on the users, groups and roles already setup in Server A, implying that all of the security rules are already in place.

Note: It might be an issue with the Web Reports, which have an internal connection that are unique to every Jedox Installation. In that case, it might be better to export them from Server A and import them to Server B.