Backing up and restoring HP Systems Insight Manager 7.1 or greater database in a HP-UX or Linux Environment

http://www.hp.com/go/hpsim (for Linux and HP-UX)

• If you are not performing a reinstallation, complete the following procedure.

1. If Systems Insight Manager is running, enter mxstop in the command line to stop the Systems

Insight Manager daemons.

2. Stop the PostgreSQL (HPSMDB) service with the stop command.

Note:

The full command path might vary depending on the PostgreSQL install

location.

For HP-UX:

/sbin/init.d/hpsmdb stop

For SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10:

/etc/init.d/hpsmdb stop

For Red Hat Enterprise Linux (all versions):

/etc/rc.d/init.d/hpsmdb stop

service hpsmdb stop

3. To verify that all Systems Insight Manager mx processes have stopped, enter the following

command:

ps -ef | grep mx

If you find any mx process running, stop the process using the following command:

kill -9 <process id>

4. For Linux systems:

a. To verify that the postmaster is running, enter:

ps –ef | grep postmaster

If the postmaster is running, stop the service by entering:

kill -9 <process id>

b. Uninstall hpsmdb by entering:

rpm –qa | grep hpsmdb| xargs rpm –e

rm –rf /opt/hpsmdb /var/opt/hpsmdb

c. Install hpsmdb from Systems Insight Manager binary:

Navigate to the Systems Insight Manager binary, and then execute the following command to

unpack all RPMs:

./sysmgmt.bin --noexec --target mxserver

cd mxserver

rpm –i hpsmdb-<xxxxxx>.rpm

Where <xxxxxx> is the appropriate hpsmdb RPM for the Linux and hardware platform. See

the Installation section of the HP Systems Insight Manager 7.0 Installation and Configuration

Guide for Linux for details.

5. For HP-UX systems:

a. Uninstall the SysMgmtDB by entering the following command: