You can use the Tools page to export or import portal content (pages and portlets) used in the Identity Manager user application. This content is also known as the portal configuration state and it includes:
Container and shared pages (including each page’s assigned portlets, and each portlet’s preferences and settings)
Portlet registrations
The export and import tools enable you to move the portal configuration state from one portal (user application) to another, as needed. Here’s how these tools work:
You can use the Portal Data Export/Import tools to:
Move your portal configuration state from a test (source) environment to a production (target) environment
Update the configuration state of a portal incrementally
Clone a portal
Optionally, overwrite the configuration state on the target portal
To use the Portal Data Export/Import tools, make sure that the Identity Manager user application (portal) is deployed and running on your source and target application servers.
It is not required that your source and target servers access the same identity vault; they can access different ones, if appropriate. The users, groups, and containers in those identity vaults are not required to be the same.
You cannot use the Portal Data Export/Import tools to:
Export or import portal configuration state when a server is currently servicing user requests
Export or import portal classes and resources
Export or import portlet classes and resources
Export or import the identity and provisioning data used in a portal
Export or import administration settings other than for pages and portlets
Migrate configuration state from an earlier portal version to a later version (the portals must be the same version)
If you are performing an incremental update, back up the target portal.
From the source portal, export the portal data by using the Portal Data Export tool.
From the target portal, import the portal data by using the Portal Data Import tool.
Test the target portal to ensure that you imported the data that you expected.