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Appendix A: Quiescing services on Source CMS
Prior to stopping the HP Insight Software services and backing up your environment, you must quiesce
Insight Software components. The following actions only need to b
e performed for components that
are installed and currently in use in your environment.
Note:
The steps might vary slightly depending on the version of software installed
on your system. See the product documentation for your release for
additional informa
tion.
1.
Ensure all in
-
progress Insight Recovery jobs have completed. You can view the status of Insight
Recovery jobs by selecting
Insight Recovery…
from the
Tools
menu in HP SIM.
Select the
Jobs
tab
to view the status of jobs.
A job with the in progress ico
n in the
Status
column has not yet
finished
.
2.
Ensure
no HP Insight Orchestrat
ion requests are in
-
progress. Requests pending approval and
scheduled requests may remain scheduled. However, if a request is scheduled to run during the
upgrade process, you will
need to defer the execution of the request until the upgrade process
is complete.
3.
You can view the status of HP IO requests by selecting
Insight Orchestration…
from the
Tools
menu in HP SIM and then selecting the
Requests
tab
. Click the
End Date
column nam
e to sort
the request list. Requests with an empty
End Date
have not yet finished.
4.
Ensure all in
-
progress logical server jobs have completed before stopping the HP Logical Server
Automation service. Logical server jobs that are in
-
progress when the service
stops will fail.
These jobs must be resubmitted after restarting the service.
5.
You can view the status of logical server jobs by selecting
VSE Management…
from the
Tools
menu in HP SIM. Use the
Reports
menu to select the
Logical Server Job Status…
item. Cl
ick the
% Complete
column name to sort the list of jobs.
6.
Ensure all in
-
progress Virtual Connect jobs have completed. You can view the status of Virtual
Connect jobs by selecting
Integrated Consoles

Virtual Connect Enterprise Manager (VCEM)…
from the
Tools
menu in HP SIM. Select the
Jobs
tab
t
o view the status of jobs. Click the
End
Time
column name to sort the job list. Jobs displaying an empty
End Time
have not finished.
7.
Ensure
all in
-
progress Virtual Machine tasks have completed.
You can view the status
of Virtual
Machine tasks by selecting
View Task Results…
from the
Tasks & Logs
menu in HP SIM. Click
the
End Time
column name to sort the task list. Tasks displaying an empty
End Time
have not
yet finished.
8.
Ensure all in
-
progress installation and configu
ration tasks have completed (for example,
Configure and Repair Agents tasks or Deploy Drivers, Firmware or Agents). You can view the
status of the tasks by selecting
View Task Results…
from the
Tasks & Logs
menu in HP SIM.
Click the
End Time
column name to
sort the task list. Tasks displaying an empty
End Time
have
not finished.
I
f you are using the
CMS
to manage gWLM on
Integrity
nodes, you can issue the
gwlm history
--
flush
command to gather the latest historical data from the gWLM agen
ts before performin
g a
backup.
This step may be skipped if you are not using the CMS to manage gWLM on
Integrity
nodes.