topic XSOAR Engine Backup/Restore in Cortex XSOAR Discussions

XSOAR Engine Backup/Restore

gnakhede — Wed, 03 Aug 2022 09:12:13 GMT

Background:
In our XSOAR platform setup, the XSOAR server is cloud hosted by Palo Alto and the XSOAR engines are deployed at 2 different data centers (on-prem). Each of these datacenters will have a single Cortex XSOAR engine server installed, which will include, a. Production Engine b. Development Engine.
Both the XSOAR engines from different data centers will be operating in “Active mode” and will be part of a load-balancing group.

Question:

1. How to backup/restore XSOAR engine configurations and files ?

2. If one of the XSOAR engines fails, how do we restore the same XSOAR engine with the configuration that we configured during the XSOAR engine installation? (For example, steps performed on the XSOAR Server console to create engine : "Engine Name" , "Installer Type", "Obtain Engine Executable file" and after installation : "Add to load-balancing group")

Re: XSOAR Engine Backup/Restore

gnakhede — Tue, 16 Aug 2022 07:47:32 GMT

Hi Team,

Does anyone have any suggestions on this?
Thank you.

Re: XSOAR Engine Backup/Restore

jfernandes1 — Thu, 18 Aug 2022 04:16:58 GMT

Hi @gnakhede,

You only need to backup the d1.conf file located at /usr/local/demisto.

To restore an engine to the previous config, you can create a new engine and add the backed up config.

Refer - Step 2 - JSON formatted configuration -> https://docs.paloaltonetworks.com/cortex/cortex-xsoar/6-9/cortex-xsoar-admin/engines/configure-engines/edit-the-engine-configuration

You can also install engines in load balanced group to ensure that there is always connectivity to integration. Refer - https://docs.paloaltonetworks.com/cortex/cortex-xsoar/6-9/cortex-xsoar-admin/engines/understand-demisto-engines