Migrating data from Fredhopper to OpenSearch as part of your upgrade from SDL Web 8.5
When upgrading from SDL Web 8.5, you need to migrate essential data from Fredhopper to OpenSearch.
Before you begin
Before you migrate data to OpenSearch, you must have first:
- Completed the upgrade from the previous version of Experience Optimization (or SmartTarget) to SDL Tridion Sites 9.5.
- Create new OpenSearch indexes using the scripts provided on your installation media. Before proceeding with this migration, the indexes should be empty.
About this task
The migration is a one-time task that is required to extract existing Promotions, Triggers, and other data from the previous Fredhopper solution and add it to your newly configured OpenSearch index.
The migration tool consists of the following two JAR files:
- smarttarget-migration-extension.jar—A RESTful service extension to Fredhopper, which gets documents from the Fredhopper system and displays them in JSON format. (This JAR is compatible with Java 7 or Java 8 for the legacy Fredhopper).
- smarttarget-migrate.jar—A command-line application that exports data from Fredhopper to a file system and then imports data from the file system to OpenSearch. (This JAR is compatible with Java 11 for the upgraded system).