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View Manager Administration Guide
148 VMware, Inc.
TheASP.NETIISregistrationtoolprovidedwiththeMicrosoft.NETFrameworkallows
youtoconductmultipleconfigurationoperations,includingmigratingkeycontainer
contentbetweendifferentsystems.
Tocarryoutthefollowingprocedureyoumusthavethe.NETFrameworkinstalledon
thesystemthatcontains(orpreviouslycontained)theinstanceofView
Composerthat
wasassociatedwiththedatabaseyouwanttouse.Youmustalsoinstallthe.NET
frameworkonthesystemonwhichyouwanttoinstallthenewinstance.
Youcandownloadthe.NETFrameworkandviewadditionalinformationaboutthe
ASP.NETIISregistrationtoolfromthefollowinglocations:
http://www.microsoft.com/net
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/k6h9cz8h(VS.80).aspx
ThefollowingproceduremustbecarriedoutbeforeinstallingtheViewComposer
serviceonthenewsystem.
To migrate an RSA key container between systems
1ExporttheRSAkeysassociatedwiththeearlierinstanceoftheViewComposer
fromtheirlocalkeycontainerbyenteringthefollowingfromacommandprompt
onthesourcesystem:
aspnet_regiis -px "SviKeyContainer" "keys.xml" -pri
TheRSApublicprivatekeypairisexportedfromtheSviKeyContainercontainer
toafilecalledkeys.xmlthatissavedlocallytotheASP.NETIISregistrationtool.
2Copythekeys.xmlfiletothesystemonwhichyouwanttoinstallanewinstance
oftheViewComposerservice.
3Importthekey
pairdataintothelocalkeycontainerbyenteringthefollowingfrom
thecommandpromptonthetargetsystem,where<path>isthepathtothe
exportedfile:
aspnet_regiis -pi "SviKeyContainer" "<path>\keys.xml"
4InstalltheViewComposerserviceusingtheproceduredescribedin“A d d i n g the
ViewComposerServicetoVirtualCenteronpage 131andprovidetherequired
informationabouttheexistingdatasource,butselectUsetheexistingRSAkey
containerwhenprompted.