Switching Configuration Profile Versions
Use
To switch an active configuration profile, you deactivate one configuration profile version, and activate another version.
Process
When you activate a new configuration profile version, the provider and the consumer systems are updated as follows:
Configuration profile version 1 is active on both the provider and the consumer system. Logical port version 1 is being used to access binding version 1 on the provider system.
The new configuration profile (version 2) is activated on the provider system. A corresponding binding is created for the service definition.
For a transitional period, both binding version 1 and version 2 are active on the provider system. Initially, only binding version 1 is being accessed by the consumer system.
The new configuration profile (version 2) is activated on the consumer system. A new logical port (version 2) is created and activated for configuration profile version 2. Logical port version 2 points to the binding version 2 on the provider system.
Configuration profile version 1 and the logical port version 1 are now deactivated on the consumer system. Configuration profile version 1 and its binding are still active on the provider system. Binding version 1 may still be accessed by other consumer systems.
Configuration profile version 1 is deactivated on the provider system. Binding version 1 is now deleted on the provider system.
Now only the new configuration profile version is active on both the provider system and the consumer system.