ISE - Backup question

[tfranke]

ISE Experts,

We have a customer on ISE ver 2.0 and are recommending that they migrate to ver 2.2.  We have a question about what the least risk migration option would be.  After several TAC cases we suspect that we may be dealing with a corrupt database.  So, we do not want to do a full backup and restore.  We are considering doing a backup of just the Configuration Data and copying that onto new virtual ISE appliances.  Can you tell us if the “Configuration Data” backup is just simply the configuration commands?  Or, does this also include some database remnants that could cause us trouble?

[Jason Kunst · Accepted solution]

The configuration includes all the policy elements and authorization rules users devices it's a database itself basically everything you see in the admin screen except for the logging data