iPAM Checkpointing

Creating checkpoints

There are 3 ways that checkpoints can be created:
  1. Whenever you press the "Stop" button on the Toolpicker window. The Toolpicker is the screen that normally comes up when you run iPAM.
  2. By pressing the checkpoint button on the administrative screen.  The administrative screen can be accessed from the Toolpicker window .
  3. Automatically if there is an instance of the checkpoint daemon running.  This daemon is automatically created by the startup wizard when you run iPAM for the first time.


Checkpoint files are in the same format as startup files. You can edit the checkpoint/startup files with a text editor. iPAM always checkpoints into the file 0checkpts\ckpt.txt. When you start iPAM with no command-line arguments it will look for an existing 0checkpts\ckpt.txt to start from. If it does not find one then it will run the startup wizard.

iPAM checkpoint files may be renamed and used as startup files.  You can start iPAM using any renamed checkpoint file.  However, iPAM will always create its checkpoint as 0checkpts\ckpt.txt.
 

Backup checkpoint files

iPAM will make an extra copy of the first checkpoint file created every day. This helps recovery in case of catastrophic failure. A "history" of checkpoint files that is up to one month old is automatically maintained by iPAM.  The day number is appended to the checkpoint file created that day.  Thus there may be as many as 31 copies of old versions of checkpoint files.
 
  Revised 27 April 1999