Data migration of an existing Microsoft Windows CMS to a new Insight Software 6.1 system

4
Introduction
The Insight Software data migration tools (DMT) provide an easy mechanism to migrate an existing
Insight Software central management server (CMS) from one hosted environment to another. Thes
e
tools are designed to relocate a CMS to a new hosted environment when there is a need to change
the underlying hardware or operating system of the CMS, without losing any of the customized data
located on the CMS. The data migrated to the target CMS envi
ronment includes the configuration
information such as system credentials, tasks, collections, licenses, and addresses for supplemental
management servers, plus management database information which includes discovered systems,
performance data, and profil
es.
Migration involves export and import
operations
.
First, t
he export
operation
run
s
on the source CMS,
which
generate
s
a large compressed zip file containing configuration data from the existing CMS
database.
Then, t
he import operation decompresses this
data and imports it on the new, or target
,
CMS. The target CMS
can
be hosted either on a new system in the infrastructure or on the same
system.
Note:
HP recommends that a separate server be used for the target CMS.
However, you can use the same server as
the source and target CMS when
new hardware is not available and the
OS needs to be reinstalled from a
32
-
bit version to a 64
-
bit version.
I
t is required to have
a
unique hostname
and IP whether the same or separate server is used
.
The migration utility do
es not copy any program executables or OS level configurations (for example,
an OS username and password). Therefore, Insight Software v6.1 must be installed on the target
CMS before performing the import. Any existing Insight Software configuration data o
n the target
CMS is overwritten with source CMS information when the data is imported.
There are several scenarios where the migration utility applies:

Moving from a 32
-
bit OS installation to a 64
-
bit OS installation on a new hardware platform
.

Moving
from an older 64
-
bit system to a newer and faster 64
-
bit system.

Moving
from
a 32
-
bit OS installation to a 64
-
bit OS installation on the same hardware
system.

Moving
from
a 32
-
bit OS installation to a new 32
-
bit OS installation on a new hardware
syst
em.
Migration
s
upport matrix
Table
1
:
Insight
S
oftware 6.
1
support matrix
Supported Versions
<Source CMS Version>

<Target
CMS version>
HP Systems Insight
Manager
HP Insight Control
HP Insight
Dynamics
5.3.1

6.1
Yes
No*
No*
6.0

6.1
Yes
No
No
6.1

6.1
Yes
Yes
Yes