Losing backed up Access Manager configuration store after uninstall

Document ID:3743147
Creation Date:09-Nov-2006
Modified Date:26-Apr-2012
- Micro Focus Products:
  Access Manager (NAM)

Environment

Access Manager 3 shipping code
Access Administrator
Novell identity Server build 491

Situation

After running the /opt/novell/devman/bin/ambkup.sh shell script to backup the Access Manager configuration store, the files are stored in the /opt/novell/devman/bin/ with the name'___cfg' with the extension LDIF and ZIP. The LDIF file contains the directory entries and the ZIP file contains the requires server and trusted root certificates.

When running the uninstall.sh to remove the Access administrator component or the entire product, the above directory, including the contents, will be removed. This implies that any backups taken and saved in that directory will be lost.

Resolution

When backing up the Access Manager configuration, copy the backups to a safe location that is not under the following directory path

- /opt/novell
- /etc/opt/novell
- /var/novell
- /var/opt/novell
- /opt/volera

each of these subdirectories will be cleaned up and removed with a full uninstall of Access Manager.

Additional Information

SP1 will make sure that the backup's are copied to a directory that will not be removed by any Access Manager uninstall operations.