How to deploy a Visual Guard repository or an application

• 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

Deploying the repository for the first time

Deployment and license key

Deployment of the parameters of the repository

Introduction

What are 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).

Export in a configuration file

1. Open Visual Guard,
2. Right click on the repository,
3. Select ?Deploy repository??,
4. Click on next button,
5. Select ?Export data in a deployment configuration file?,
6. Click on ?Next? button,
7. Select ?Deploy parameter of the repository,
8. Click on ?Next? button,
9. Click on ?Finish? button,
10. Save the configuration file.
11. Open the tool ?vg_deployment.exe?,
12. Select the configuration file,
13. Select the type of the repository,
14. Enter the complementary information for the repository,
15. Click on ?Ok? to begin the deployment.

Export directly in a repository

1. Open Visual Guard,
2. Right click on the repository,
3. Select ?Deploy repository??,
4. Click on next button,
5. Select ?Deploy in an existing repository?,
6. Select the repository in the list,
7. Click on ?Next? button,
8. Select ?Deploy parameter of the repository,
9. Click on ?Next? button,
10. Click on ?Finish? button,

Requirements

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

Restrictions

• If you want to deploy the properties ? Requires
  unique email? and ?requires Password, question and answer?,
  all the users of the directory have to have an email address and a
  question / response. If one the user don?t have one
  if this information, the deployment will be cancel and a exception will be
  generate.