Readiness Phase in Cloud Acceleration Manager readiness-phase-cam
Once you have created a project in Cloud Acceleration Manager (CAM), you can now start the assessment of your current Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) implementation in the Readiness phase.
The Readiness Phase includes:
Follow the steps below to navigate to the Readiness Phase:
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Click your project card.
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On the project landing page, navigate to the Readiness section, as shown in the figure below.
note note NOTE See Creating and Managing a Project in Cloud Acceleration Manager to learn more.
Using Best Practices Analysis Card best-practices-analysis
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Click Review from the Best Practices Analysis card.
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Download Best Practices Analyzer (BPA).
note note NOTE To avoid an impact on business critical instances, Adobe recommends that you run BPA on an Author environment. The environment should be as close as possible to the Production environment in the areas of customizations, configurations, content, and user applications. Alternatively, it can be run on a clone of the production Author environment. -
Navigate to the Software Distribution portal and download the Best Practices Analyzer as a zip file.
note note NOTE Review Using Best Practices Analyzer to learn how to run BPA.
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In CAM, click Get upload key, so you can get the key used to configure your system to automatically upload BPA reports directly to CAM.
note important IMPORTANT The report can still be uploaded manually, but using the Upload Key streamlines the operation. Note that the report cannot be uploaded manually if you are in the browser’s Incognito mode. -
After a new report has been uploaded, you can see the Best Practices Analysis report in CAM.
note note NOTE If multiple, different reports are uploaded, the report that is displayed in detail is always the one that has the most recent creation date (not upload date). -
Review and explore the Best Practices Analysis dashboard in CAM. See Reviewing Best Practices Analysis Report for more details.
note note NOTE Uploading a new report resets all the assessments if it is newer than the previously loaded report.
Using Print Preview print-preview-cam
You can select the print preview option in Cloud Acceleration Manager for a printable preview of the reports or to print the report to a PDF format for easy shareability.
Follow the steps below:
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Click the Print Preview action.
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On the new tab with the report displayed in a printable preview, click Print to print the report to a PDF format.
note important IMPORTANT - The option Save as PDF is recommended and supported for the above functionality.
- If the browser’s print button is used, it prints only one page.
Using View Trendline trendline-view-cam
When you upload more than one distinct Best Practices Analyzer (BPA) report in a Project, you can select the View Trendline option to view and compare results from the historical BPA reports.
Follow the steps below to view reports from the trendline option:
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Navigate to your project and click Review from the Best Practices Analysis card in the Readiness phase.
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From the View drop-down list, click Trendline Report, as shown in the figure below.
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Clicking Trendline Report opens the trendline view of the report.
note note NOTE The Trendline Report displays the results from the historical BPA reports in a graphical representation. You see two graphs displaying the trend of the: - Report Findings Trend
- Custom Components and Template Trend
You can add or change the graphical view by way of the drop-down, as shown in the figure below:
Reviewing Best Practices Analysis Report analysis-report
Explore the following cards available in the Best Practices Analysis Report page:
- open its associated tab
- bookmark all report tabs (including filtering) for sharing or future retrieval
- use the details icon to view the details of each report finding
Report Properties report-properties
The Report Properties card provides information about report properties such as report date, duration, filters, upload date, and Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) details.
Report Overview report-overview
This Report Overview card provides the report findings and severity levels that apply when assessing the readiness to move to AEM as a Cloud Service, as shown in the figure below.
Clicking this report opens the Report tab.
You can filter the report based on importance, subtype, or count.
Best Practices Assessment best-practices-assessment
The Best Practices Assessment option provides an assessment of your current AEM instance and provides guidance on next steps to adopt AEM best practices. You can review the following information from this tab:
- AEM Instance Overview
- Custom Components and Templates
- Additional Findings
- Slow Queries
- Maintenance Tasks
Migration Complexity Assessment migration-complexity-assessment
The Migration Complexity Assessment option provides an assessment of the complexity to migrate the existing AEM implementation to AEM as a Cloud Service.
You can review the following information from this tab:
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AEM Instance Overview
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Assessment
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Content Migration Considerations
Using Planning and Setup Card planning-setup
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Click View from the Planning And Setup card. This card provides all the relevant content that helps you plan and set up your AEM migration.
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A content carousel displays all the relevant information for this phase of the migration journey.
Deleting a Best Practices Analysis Report from the Trendline view delete-trendline
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Navigate to your project and click Review from the Best Practices Analysis card in the Readiness phase.
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Click ….
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In the drop-down list, click View Trendline, as shown in the figure below.
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Click the delete icon from the Trendline Report screen.
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Click Delete to confirm the deletion.
What’s Next whats-next
Once you have learned how to log into Cloud Acceleration Manager and how to create a project, you are now ready to move on to reviewing the next step in the Implementation Phase.