Using the Update Wizard

About the Update Wizard

Updating Axway Servers

Updating Channels

About the Update Wizard

The UpdateWizard is a Composer tool used to update the configuration of existing objects by applying a Template to them.

It is accessible to all users, independent of user rights.

Use the Update Wizard to apply a Template to:

• Axway Servers (Topography)
• Channels (Integration-Services)

Before you use the Update Wizard, familiarize yourself with Templates. For details, see Working with Templates.

Updating Axway Servers

To update one or more Axway Servers, open the Tools menu in the Topography workbench and select Update Wizard.

Screen 1: Select Template type

Screen 1 displays the options that you can select. In the Topography workbench, Axway Server is the only option available and is selected by default.

Click Next to continue.

Screen 2: Select ServerTemplate value

Screen 2 displays the possible Templates that you can select to apply to the Axway Servers that you want to update.

Select a Template from the drop-down list and click Next to continue.

Screen 3: Select Terminus type

Screen 3 displays enables you to specify whether you want to apply the Template on one or more individual Axway Servers, or one or more ServerLists. Select one of the following options:

• Axway Server: the following screen displays a list of Axway Servers
• ServerList: the following screen displays a list of ServerLists

Click Next to continue.

Screen 4: Select Terminus objects

Screen 4 displays:

• A list of all available Axway Servers or ServerLists  in the Available column
• An empty Selected column

Use the Add, Add all, Remove and Remove all buttons to move the objects from one column to the other.
Click Next to apply the selected ServerTemplate to each selected Axway Server or ServerList.

Screen 5: Execution report

The last screen displays the execution report with a line for each updated Axway Server.

Click Finish to close the Update Wizard.

Updating Channels

To update one or more Channels, open the Tools menu in the Integration-Services workbench and select Update Wizard.

Screen 1: Select Template type

Screen 1 displays the options that you can select. Select Channel and click Next to continue.

Screen 2: Select Channel Template for each terminus (optional)

Screen 2 displays the possible Templates that you can select to apply to each Channel Terminus that you want to update. Select a Template from each drop-down list.

Note: You can select "No Channel Template" if you want all parameters defined for the Template to disappear from the Channel definition.

Click Next to continue.

Screen 3: Select Terminus objects

Screen 3 displays two columns:

• Available: a list of all available Axway Servers, Partners or Applications. Use the field at the top of the column as a filter to restrict the selection. For example, type *AIX to display only objects whose name includes the string "AIX".
• Selected: displays the list of software objects that you select for Terminus 2. You can select as many objects as you like.

Use the Add, Add all, Remove and Remove all buttons to move the objects from one column to the other.

Click Next to continue.

Screen 4: Available / Selected Channels

Screen 4 displays two panes:

• A list of all the Channels available for theAxway Servers, Applications or Partners selected in the previous screen in the Available Channels pane
• An empty Selected Channels pane

Use the Add, Add all, Remove and Remove all buttons to move the objects from one pane to the other.

To remove all existing object values from the selected Channel(s), click the option Delete all object values.

Click Next to update the selected Channels.

Screen 5: Execution report

The last screen displays the execution report with a line for each updated Channel.

Click Finish to close the Update Wizard.