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Exporting and importing your preferences

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The preferences are preserved in an agent's eaa.xml file. It is not recommended this file be modified directly. Either the agentpref utility installed on the agent machine or the services machine should be used.

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You should use the --export option to backup the agent and extension preferences regularly. The --import option can be used to restore the preferences after a machine failure or re-installation.

Export agent preferences to an XML file.

 To export agent preferences to an XML file use the command:
agentpref --export filename
 

where:
filename is the name of a file where the preferences are put in XML format.
 

Import agent preferences from an XML file.

 To import agent preferences from an XML file use the command:
agentpref --import filename

 where:
filename is the name of a file in XML format that contains the preferences to read.

 

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