Data migration of an existing MS Windows CMS to a new Insight Software 6.0 system

3
Introduc
tion
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.
These
tools are designed to relocate a CMS to a new hosted enviro
nment 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 environment 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,
p
erformance data, and profiles.
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 CM
S
can
be hosted either on a new system in the infrastru
cture or on the same
system.
Note:
HP recommends that a separate serv
er 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.
The migration utility does not copy any program executables or OS level configurations (for example
,
an OS username and password)
. Therefore,
Insight S
oftware
v6.0
must be instal
led on the target
CMS
before performing the
import. Any existing Insight S
oftware configuration data on 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 system.
Migration
s
upport matrix
Table1:
Insight
S
oftware 6.0 support matrix
Source CMS System
Target CMS System
Insight S
oftware version 6.0
Insight Softwa
re
version
Platform OS
configuration
Platform OS
configuration
3.1
I
nsight Control
,
VCEM,
or HP SIM
only
32 bit OS
32 bit OS
64 bit OS