5.5.2

You successfully changed the certificate of the Orchestrator Appliance management site.
Back Up the Orchestrator Configuration and Elements
You can take a snapshot of your Orchestrator configuration and import this configuration into a new
Orchestrator instance to back up your Orchestrator configuration. You can also back up the Orchestrator
elements that you modified.
If you edit any standard workflows, actions, policies, Web views, or configuration elements, and then
import a package containing the same elements with a higher Orchestrator version number, your changes to
the elements are lost. To make modified and custom elements available after the upgrade, you must export
them in a package before you start the upgrade procedure.
Each Orchestrator server instance has unique certificates, and each vCenter Server plug-in instance has a
unique ID. The certificates and the unique ID define the identity of the Orchestrator server and the
vCenter Server plug-in. If you do not export the Orchestrator configuration or back up the Orchestrator
elements for backup purposes, make sure that you change these identifiers.
Procedure
1 Log in to the Orchestrator configuration interface as vmware.
2 On the General tab, click Export Configuration.
3 (Optional) Type a password to protect the configuration file.
Use the same password when you import the configuration.
4 Click Export.
5 Log in to the Orchestrator client application.
6 Create a package that contains all the Orchestrator elements that you created or edited.
a Click the Packages view.
b Click the menu button in the title bar of the Packages list and select Add package.
c Name the new package and click OK.
The syntax for package names is domain.your_company.folder.package_name..
For example, com.vmware.myfolder.mypackage.
d Right-click the package and select Edit.
e On the General tab, add a description for the package.
f On the Workflows tab, add workflows to the package.
g (Optional) Add policy templates, actions, Web views, configuration elements, resource elements,
and plug-ins to the package.
7 Export the package.
a Right-click the package to export and select Export package.
b Browse to select a location where you want to save the package and click Open.
c (Optional) Sign the package with a specific certificate.
d (Optional) Impose restrictions on the exported package.
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