Backing up and restoring HP Insight Management 7.3 Central Management Server (Windows)

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From the primary CMS, you can run the ioexec command from the command prompt, as shown in the following
example. This command is located in <HPIO>\bin. See Table 7
for the default location of <HPIO>. You must replace
<secondaryCMSFQDN> with the lowercase fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of the secondary CMS to be backed up.
This must be the same hostname configured on the
Federated CMS Configuration
page. To access this page, select
Options

Federated CMS Configuration…
in HP Systems Insight Manager on the primary CMS.
ioexec beginmaintenance cms –C <secondaryCMSFQDN>
Use the following command to get a count of active requests to the secondary CMS. The quiesce is not complete until
the active request count goes to 0.
ioexec countrunningrequests cms –C <secondaryCMSFQDN>
For more information about these commands, use one of the following commands:
ioexec beginmaintenance cms –help
ioexec countrunningrequests cms –help
You can also run this command by invoking the sample script, quiesceSecondaryCMS.bat, located in
<SIM>\quiesce\examples. For more information, see Appendix J: Unattended backup with mxquiesce.
2. Allow all in-progress jobs and tasks to complete by using the mxquiesce command. This command works with the HP
Insight Management components listed in Table 2 to allow in-progress activity to complete and block new jobs from
starting.
You can run the following command from the command prompt. The mxquiesce command is located in
<SIM>\bin. Table 4 lists the default location of <SIM>. You must replace <password> with the Administrator
password, or you can omit the –p option to be prompted for the password.
mxquiesce –u Administrator –p <password>
Using this command, administrators can script the backup tasks and schedule backups. Manual intervention for
quiescing the CMS is no longer required. A sample script, MatrixBackupScript.bat, is located in
<SIM>\quiesce\examples. See Table 4 for the default location. For more information about the mxquiesce
command, see Appendix J: Unattended backup with mxquiesce.
Most components support read-only browsing while the CMS is quiesced, with the exception of HP Storage
Provisioning Manager and HP Insight Control server migration, which close open sessions and block logins while the
CMS is quiesced. Each component has a maximum timeout value. If a component's timeout value is reached before the
operation is complete, the command will abort the operation and return the CMS to an unquiesced state (normal
operation). Also, if the HP Insight Management services are stopped or the CMS is rebooted, the CMS will be in an
unquiesced state when it is restarted.
Table 2. HP Insight Management components quiesced by mxquiesce
Quiesce order HP Insight Management component
1
HP Insight Control server deployment
2
HP Insight managed system setup wizard
3
HP Insight Control server migration
4
HP Matrix recovery management
5
HP Matrix infrastructure orchestration
6
HP Matrix logical server management
8