Step 2 - Secure Macro Transformation to Secrets (Security & Encryption)

 The steps on this page guide you to transform the server secure macro data to Confluence Cloud Secret data

Prerequisites

You have

The user running the migration needs to ensure they have the “Add pages” space permission in Confluence Cloud. 

To ensure a successful cloud migration, an administrator who does not have access to a secure macro will be added as a user owner of migrated secrets.

Guide

Steps in Confluence server

Prepare the following values from Confluence Security and Encryption server

Value

Method to Obtain

Value

Method to Obtain

Space key and Migration name

  • go to General Configuration

  • on left-hand menu- navigate to Migration Assistant

  • choose MIGRATE YOUR DATA in the Migration Dashboard to view details of any previous migration

  • find the Migration name  and Space Key details in the Migration Dashboard-

This will be the data input for the next step

Migration Private Key and Passphrase

  • go to the gear icon Manage apps

  • scroll to the Security and Encryption Configuration > Settings

  • scroll to the bottom of the Settings page to find the View Migration keys link



  • input the previously obtained values from Migration Dashboard

    • Migration name

    • Space Key

  • copy the

    • Migration private key

    • Passphrase

  • keep this result handy for the next steps in Confluence Cloud

Steps in Confluence Cloud

Perform the transformation of the Secure Macro

  • navigate to each migrated space in Cloud that has secure macros

Under Apps in the left hand menu of the space

  • choose Secret Administration

  • select the Server Migration tab

  • choose the secrets that are to be transformed

  • choose Migrate Selected Secrets to open a popup dialog box 

  • insert the Migration Private Key and Passphrase (from the earlier steps in server)

You are presented with two possible scenarios after this step

  • successful scenario

  • failed scenario

In the event that these do not resolve the issue, contact us via our support portal.

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