Application Exporter

The Application Exporter enables you to generate command-line scripts that re-create Application Center applications on other Application Center clusters. This tool enumerates the applications—and their resources—on a source cluster that is used to create a batch file, which you can run against a target cluster.

Requirements

The tool requires Application Center 2000 on both the source and target and can only be run on the cluster controller.

Installation

No installation is necessary; the tool is a stand-alone, command-line utility.

Usage Instructions

Run this tool from the command line and redirect its output to a text file with the .cmd file extension. For example, the following command exports its output to a file called Myapps.cmd:

 myapps.cmd: acappexp > myapps.cmd. 

This generated batch file uses the Application Center command-line tool, AC.EXE, and can be run on any server that has Application Center installed.

After you generate the command batch file, you can run it (Myapps.cmd) on the target and re-create the applications.

The batch file performs rudimentary error checking and cancels the script when the AC.EXE command-line tool reports any failure.

Command Syntax

See the documentation for Application Exporter on the Resource Kit companion CD.