topic Re: Copy Tasks between servers, what needs to be configured ? in QlikView

Copy Tasks between servers, what needs to be configured ?

Anonymous — Mon, 26 Jan 2026 18:19:17 GMT

In our Qlikview Environment is it not possible to copy tasks from one server to Another, what is needed to getthe servers talking to each other ?

I want to do my deploys by copying the tasks from Acceptance to Production instead of createing them all over again, what is needed to do that ?

I have added the oter server in QMC but gets the message below when trying to connect:

Failed to retrieve settings from QlikView Server.

Make sure that the QVS is available with the correct credentials.

/Frank

Re: Copy Tasks between servers, what needs to be configured ?

Bill_Britt — Thu, 30 Jan 2014 18:38:53 GMT

HI,

In the QMC under services it would be the Remote Mangement Services

Bill

Re: Copy Tasks between servers, what needs to be configured ?

srinivasa1 — Thu, 30 Jan 2014 18:47:53 GMT

I will suggest create one singe QMC Dev
QA and Prod task it will be easy to copy .

Re: Copy Tasks between servers, what needs to be configured ?

gainkarthi — Fri, 31 Jan 2014 02:56:22 GMT

Hi Bill,

What is the use of remote management service ?

Regards,

Karthi

Re: Copy Tasks between servers, what needs to be configured ?

Bill_Britt — Fri, 31 Jan 2014 11:37:42 GMT

It is used to make it where you can import task from one server to another.

Bill

Re: Copy Tasks between servers, what needs to be configured ?

gainkarthi — Fri, 31 Jan 2014 13:38:31 GMT

Can you share if you have any documents for this?

Re: Copy Tasks between servers, what needs to be configured ?

gainkarthi — Fri, 28 Feb 2014 19:05:56 GMT

Hi Srini,

This is good idea. But When you have lot of tasks and communications between QMC to others, you may experience slow response with QMC or sometimes QMC will not even open.

Regards,

Karthi

Re: Copy Tasks between servers, what needs to be configured ?

sudeepkm — Thu, 27 Mar 2014 09:47:55 GMT

Hi Bill,

Do we need to have both the environments Service Account ID same to achieve Remote Management Service?

Please Advice.

Thanks and Regards,

Sudeep

Re: Copy Tasks between servers, what needs to be configured ?

Bill_Britt — Thu, 27 Mar 2014 10:56:44 GMT

No, once you start to set this up you will find the login tab that will allow you to supply a username and password.

Bill

Re: Re: Copy Tasks between servers, what needs to be configured ?

Luis_Cortizo — Thu, 27 Mar 2014 11:32:54 GMT

You have a general description and how to setup the service on the console web help:

Remote Management Services

In theRemote Management Services folder, tasks from the management services of remote servers can be imported.

Note! The involved environments must use the same major QlikView release (for example, QlikView 11 and QlikView 11 or QlikView 11 and QlikView 11.20). If the involved environments use different major releases (for example, QlikView 10 and QlikView 11), the Remote Management Services cannot be used.

Each connection is set up by the user account of the current Management Service; hence, this account has to be a member of the QlikView Management API security group of the remote system.

Note! If the QlikView Management API security group does not exist on the remote system, it must be created.

This function can be used to retrieve tasks between QlikView Publisher (QVP) environments, typically between a test system and a production system. To do this, a link, a remote management service, has to be set up in the production system, towards the test system. Using the link, tasks can be pulled from the test system into the production system. Since the test system usually has its own set of folders and servers, and other folders and servers are used in production, the test items have to be mapped to the production items. The link and the map are set up once only. Hence, when importing the tasks, the retrieval and mapping are performed automatically.

For information on how to perform the actual import of tasks from remote servers, see Import Task.

Note! The Remote Management Services cannot be used to import Supporting Tasks.

About the user, as Bill said, there's a tab to specify the user and password of the user that runs the services on the environment or you can create a new Windows group called Remote Management API and add the user there.

After the Remote Management Service is configured, when you right click on a document from Source Document an "Import Task" option will appear asking the tabs that you want to import from the other environment to the one you're working with.

Of course, for this to work you need a Publisher License on both environments.

Hope it helps.

Best regards.

Re: Copy Tasks between servers, what needs to be configured ?

sudeepkm — Thu, 27 Mar 2014 11:42:08 GMT

Thanks Bill.

From the QMC help I found this info.

"In the Remote Management Services folder, tasks from the management services of remote servers can be imported. Each connection is set up by the user account of the current Management Service; hence, this account has to be a member of the QlikView Management API security group of the remote system."

So suppose I want to copy Tasks from Test environment to PROD environment and as per the above information (bold and underlined), Would it be correct to say that,

"Production Publisher's Service Account ID or Functional ID has to be added to the Local Admin Group of the Test Environment Publisher". Or QlikView Management API security group means something else. Please advice. Thanks in advance.

Re: Copy Tasks between servers, what needs to be configured ?

sudeepkm — Wed, 23 Apr 2014 12:14:37 GMT

Note! If the QlikView Management API security group does not exist on the remote system, it must be created.

Is this created like a local admin group (Active Directory) in the Remote system and we need to add the Target systems Functional ID in this group. Please suggest.

Re: Copy Tasks between servers, what needs to be configured ?

Luis_Cortizo — Wed, 23 Apr 2014 12:31:54 GMT

It must be created as a local Windows group (as the QlikView Administrators group) and then you need to add the services user.

Hope it helps.

Best regards.

Re: Copy Tasks between servers, what needs to be configured ?

sudeepkm — Thu, 24 Apr 2014 12:39:34 GMT

Thanks a lot. We tried it yesterday and was able to map Source folders and QVS but finally when we tried to import a task from one env to another we found the given below error message.

Re: Copy Tasks between servers, what needs to be configured ?

Bill_Britt — Thu, 24 Apr 2014 13:01:50 GMT

Hi,

Try this and see if it helps. Edit QVManagementService.exe.config which is located at

C:\Program Files\QlikView\Management Service

Increase the value for this key and see if that helps

Bill

Re: Copy Tasks between servers, what needs to be configured ?

sudeepkm — Thu, 24 Apr 2014 13:17:08 GMT

Hi Bill,

Thanks a lot. Do I need to change this setting in both the Source (Remote env) and Target (higher env) environments or just in the traget env where I'm trying to import the task?

Thanks and Regards,

Sudeep

Re: Copy Tasks between servers, what needs to be configured ?

Bill_Britt — Thu, 24 Apr 2014 14:04:05 GMT

On the receiving machine.

Bill

Re: Copy Tasks between servers, what needs to be configured ?

Anonymous — Tue, 29 Apr 2014 16:28:02 GMT

I have managed to setup the system so we could copy Tasks between the environments, but the tasks created in the receiving environment doesn't get the original name as they had.

QV seem to add text to the new name, can that be avoided ?

My goal is to get the developer to create the setup of the jobs and then just import it into our Production, is that not doable ?

/Frank

Re: Copy Tasks between servers, what needs to be configured ?

Bill_Britt — Wed, 30 Apr 2014 01:34:10 GMT

Hi Frank,

I have not seen this before. Can you post a screen shot of what is happening?

Bill

Re: Copy Tasks between servers, what needs to be configured ?

Anonymous — Wed, 30 Apr 2014 06:47:13 GMT

I Think this was a missunderstanding from my side,

I tried it agin and it worked, but if the Task already exist on the receiving server does QV create a new name and adds e.g. Reload of 1.Appication\1.Extract\oldDocumnetName.qvw instead of oldDocumnetName.qvw, can QV not overwrite the old Task with the new ? Do I have to delete the original first ?

One thing that didn't work as I expected was the relation between two tasks isn't created in the receiving environment. The task that is a child of another task will become two separate tasks and I have to create the relation again, is that how it's suppose to work ?

/Frank