HP Insight Management 7.3 Installation and Configuration Guide

A Backing up the CMS
The upgrade process is not reversible. If, after you begin, you decide not to complete the upgrade
to Insight Management 7.2, a backup copy of your pre-7.2 environment is required to restore your
CMS to the pre-upgrade state. HP recommends making a backup of the environment before
upgrading the software. The following sections describe the process to back up and restore your
pre-7.2 HP Matrix Operating Environment CMS configuration.
“Back up your pre-7.2 CMS configuration” (page 83)
“Restore your pre-7.2 CMS configuration” (page 87)
IMPORTANT: After the upgrade process has completed successfully, you must perform a backup
of the upgraded 7.2 configuration. This is necessary to ensure that changes to the managed
resources by the 7.2 CMS will continue to be manageable if the CMS ever needs to be restored
from backup. See the Backing up and Restoring HP Insight Management Central Management
Server (Windows) whitepaper at http://www.hp.com/go/insightmanagement/docs for instructions
about backing up an Insight Management 7.2 Windows CMS.
For an HP-UX CMS, follow the pre-7.2 instructions described in this section to back up and restore
a 7.2 environment.
Back up your pre-7.2 CMS configuration
Table 14 provides an overview of the steps required to perform a backup of your pre-7.2
environment.
Table 14 Overview of steps to back up a pre-7.2 CMS environment
ActionStep
Quiesce the Insight Management components.1
Stop the Insight Management services.2
Back up the Insight Management databases on the remote database server if Insight Management
has been configured to use a remote database.
3
Perform a full system backup of the CMS.4
Proceed with the upgrade. (Do not restart the Insight Management services before initiating the
upgrade.)
5
To make a complete backup of your pre-7.2 HP Insight Dynamics configuration, perform the
following steps.
Back up your pre-7.2 CMS configuration 83