How to deploy a Visual Guard repository or an application

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Copy the Visual Guard tables and data from the source database to the target database.
This solution is simple but you can only copy the full content of the repository
and not a part of this repository because Visual Guard stores its data in a binary format.
Use the Visual Guard Console. The Visual Guard console provides a Wizard that will
help you to deploy the full content of your repository or the data corresponding to an application.
To do that, you must be connected to your source repository then right-click this repository and select the option “Deploy repository…”. This wizard
enables you to directly deploy your repository into another one or export data
as a deployment configuration file.
Use the deployment tool. This tool uses the deployment configuration file exported
by the console and can be launched as a command line tool. This utility can be used
to automate your deployment.
Use the deployment API. You can use this API to integrate your deployment in a custom
program. The classes used by the deployment are located in the namespace
Novalys.VisualGuard.Security.Deployment
(assembly: vg_deployment.exe). You can contact the Visual Guard support, if you need
more information about this API.

How to use the deployment tool

Option	Description
-?	Prints vg_deployment.exe tool Help text in the command window.
-w	Run the tool in Wizard mode. This is the default if no command line arguments are specified.
-t repository type	Specifies the type of the repository (Oracle, SQLServer, File). This option is not necessary. If this option is omitted, the type of the repository is SQLServer.
-s schema name	The Oracle schema name containing the Visual Guard tables. This option is necessary if the type of the repository is Oracle and when the user specified in the connection string is not the owner of Visual Guard tables. This value is case sensitive.
-c connection string	The connection string to the computer running the database where the repository will be deployed. This option is necessary if do not use the option -W. The user specified in the connection string must have the permissions to update and delete data in Visual Guard table. When the type of the repository is File, the value must contain the path of the directory where the repository will be deployed.
-f path	The path of the deployment configuration file used by the tool. This option is not necessary. By default the tool will use the file “deployment.config” located in its directory.

Deploying the repository for the first time

Deployment and license key

Deployment of the parameters of the repository

Password Policy,
Membership setting (?require unique email?, ?requires
password question and answer?, etc),
Misc (?Supported authentication mode?, ?Allow to
rename user?, etc).

To use deployment of the parameters of the repository you must have version 2.8 or higher of Visual-Guard.

Restrictions