Backing up a local provisioner

[Chuppster]

We are working on a solution that involves a central provisioner that provisions a MESH network of sensors that it subscribes to.  We need to be able to replace this central node if it fails.  Is there a way to do a drop-in replacement for the provisioner? 

If a drop-in-replacement provisioner is not possible, can we make our central node a proxy provisioner for itself and the rest of the network, then back up the proxy provisioner portion of the central device? The central device would be able then to restore the backed up data and re-provision itself onto the network.

Finally, what exact data needs to be backed up to get things up and running?

[David Edwin]

The provisioner should be able to export it's state to a file. This file should be backed up and can be imported to another provisioner. Use the python pyACI interface to the provsioner to understand this. The pyACI provisioner uses a JSON file to store the state of the Network and should be what needs to get backed up.