End of Sale Notice:

F5 NGINX is announcing the End of Sale (EoS) for NGINX Management Suite API Connectivity Manager Module, effective January 1, 2024.

F5 maintains generous lifecycle policies that allow customers to continue support and receive product updates. Existing API Connectivity Manager Module customers can continue to use the product past the EoS date. License renewals are not available after September 30, 2024.

See our End of Sale announcement for more details.

Back up and recovery

By default, the data for API Connectivity Manager isn’t included in backups for NGINX Management Suite.

To back up module data, follow these steps:

Open a secure shell (SSH) connection to the NGINX Management Suite host and log in.

Edit the backup.sh and restore.sh scripts and uncomment the commands in the relevant sections:

In backup.sh, uncomment the following line:

## Back up API Connectivity Manager
# Uncomment the following line to back up API Connectivity Manager.
./backup-acm.sh

Uncomment the following section as well:

## Back up API Connectivity Manager
# Uncomment the following line to back up API Connectivity Manager.
ACM_ACTIVE=$(systemctl is-active --quiet nms-acm)
IS_ACM_ACTIVE=$?
if [ $IS_ACM_ACTIVE -ne 0 ]; then
    echo "You need to start the required NGINX Management Suite services before running the backup script."
    echo "Please ensure the following nms service is running:"
    echo "nms-acm"
    exit 1
fi

In restore.sh, uncomment the following line:

## Restore the API Connectivity Manager database.
# Uncomment the following line to restore API Connectivity Manager.
./restore-acm.sh

To create a backup, run the back up script:
```
sudo ./backup.sh
```
To restore from a backup:

Make sure the NGINX Management Suite service is stopped, then remove the existing database files.
```
sudo systemctl stop nms
sudo rm -rf /var/lib/nms/dqlite/*
```
Run the restore script:
```
sudo ./restore.sh /tmp/nms-backup-<DATETIME>.tgz
```