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Exported Object Business Group Requirements
Policy
(always shared)
The following tasks allow membership in any business group in the tenant.
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Export the object.
Artifact repository
(always shared)
The following tasks require membership in the owning business group.
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Export the object.
Using the CLI Import Command
The CLI import command imports a package that includes applications and their associated blueprints
and deployment profiles, external services, policies, artifact repositories, services, logical templates, and
available custom tasks between different Application Services instances.
You can import packages created with the export command only. You cannot import a package that has
been altered or created by any means other than the export command.
You must belong to the owning business group of every object in the import package to import the
objects.
When you run the import-package command, you import the entire package to the targeted server. You
cannot selectively import objects from the package.
You cannot import external services with the same name into different business groups, and you cannot
import an external service as a dependency if it is owned by another business group.
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Make sure the application that contained the deployment profile in the source appliance, is either a
shared application or privately owned by the target group in the target appliance. Importing a
deployment profile into a private application owned by any business group other than the target group
is not supported.
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Make sure the blueprint that was used when creating the deployment profile is not changed when
importing, any slight change in the blueprint will not allow nodes and components to map and this use
case is not supported.
You can import a deployment profile as a dependency of a shared application, or as a dependency of a
private application owned by the target business group. Also ensure that the blueprint used when creating
the deployment profile does not change during the import because the slightest change prevents nodes
and components from mapping. Before you import a deployment profile, save the custom task you added
to the execution deployment plan. See Review the Execution Plan and Add Custom Tasks.
For the import process to finish successfully, the objects in the package cannot include non-ASCII
characters.
The import-package command
The CLI import-package command has the following format.
import-package --importFilePath pathname --targetGroup obgname --ConflictResolutionAction action
The following table describes the required components of the import-package command.
Using Application Services
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