Configuration Synchronization

Enabling Configuration Synchronization

Select Enable configuration synchronization to ensure that each server in your SBM installation is automatically updated when you change configuration settings on one of your SBM servers. This eases administrative duties and keeps configuration settings across your entire SBM installation in sync.

• If you have a distributed installation, it is highly recommended that you use this option to easily synchronize configuration settings between each SBM server. Otherwise, you must export and import configuration snapshot files between SBM Configurator instances on each machine.
• If you select this option and you have a multi-environment installation (in which users complete acceptance testing prior to pushing changes into production), specify which environment this server belongs to (for example, Production). Otherwise, leave the environment name as DEFAULT.
• If you have multiple collections of SBM environments (which are considered "environment sets"), each environment in the set requires a different name. When you are prompted, enter the name of the environment that the server belongs to.

If you select Enable configuration synchronization, the Revision History button appears. This enables you to view and manage prior configurations that have been applied. Each entry provides a complete summary of your installation because it pulls data from the Configuration Settings database (not just the settings from your local machine).

• Use the Search field to find a particular snapshot of the Configuration Settings database. You can search by revision, SBM version, environment name, host name, or comment.
• Filter the list of snapshots using the Environment or SBM version drop-down lists.
• Click View to display an entire snapshot in XML format.
• Select one or more rows (via CTL+click or SHIFT+click) and click Export to save a snapshot file. You can send this file to Support for troubleshooting issues.
• Select a snapshot from the list and click the Revert To button to rollback to an earlier configuration, if necessary. You are prompted to confirm that you want to rollback to a previous configuration. If you decide to continue, you must click Apply after the rollback is finished in order to use the prior configuration.
• Select two rows (via CTL+click or SHIFT+click) and click Compare to launch the comparison window, which enables you to compare snapshots side-by-side. Differences between the snapshots are highlighted.
• Click a column header to sort the list of snapshots by values in that column.
• Hover over a column header and click the filter icon to filter the list by one or more values in the column. A summary of applied filters appears at the bottom of the dialog box.

Using Configuration Snapshots

If you decide not to synchronize your configuration, you must use configuration snapshots to update the connection information and security settings on each SBM Configurator server.

This means you will use the Export Configuration and Import Configuration buttons to export your configuration to a local file, which you can manually import into SBM Configurator on another server to update it with settings from the server where the export was performed.