HP Systems Insight Manager 6.3 Installation and Configuration Guide for Microsoft Windows

IMPORTANT: For a Silent upgrade, the service or database user name containing special
characters, such as: <, &, <, >, ', "must be escaped appropriately as below in the silent.xml
file:
&amp; &
&lt; <
&gt; >
&apos; '
&quot; “
For example, for a user name such as user&1, the entry in silent.xml would be user&amp;1.
For a silent install/upgrade embedded quote ( " ) character in service or database password is
not supported.
The installation or upgrade status of HP Systems Insight Manager and selected components are
logged in the hpsim.log and silentstatus.xml files. Both files are created in the root of the
system drive.
Data migration
The data migration tool is a command line interface tool that you can use to migrate configuration
data from an installation of HP Systems Insight Manager 5.3.x or later to a new installation of
Systems Insight Manager 6.3 running on another CMS. The process leverages both an export and
import tool to migrate the data. For example, you can use this tool to migrate a HP Systems Insight
Manager 6.3 system on a 32-bit operating system to a Systems Insight Manager 6.3 installation
running on a 64-bit Windows operating system. Configuration data includes user settings, discovered
systems and their credentials, as well as additional customizations made to HP Systems Insight
Manager. You can use the migration tool to move the data from a working HP Systems Insight
Manager installation to a new system, or to backup and restore an HP Systems Insight Manager
installation. Another common use is to avoid an “in place” upgrade, this allows you to keep an
older version of HP Systems Insight Manager in an available and operational state as a source
system and install a new version on a different server and import the data. This tool only supports
Windows operating system with a Microsoft SQL Server local or remote database and can only
be run by an operating system administrator.
IMPORTANT: It is not recommended to run both the source and target HP Systems Insight Manager
servers at the same time, tasks such as discovery or deployments can run from both CMSs.
Complete the following procedure to migrate configuration data.
Exporting data from a CMS
1. Before data can be exported, the following requirements must be met:
• Determine if enough disk space is available on the CMS. This is dependent on how much
data is contained in the database.
• The source server has HP Systems Insight Manager 6.3 or later.
• The mxexport command must only run after all tasks and jobs such as, discovery
tasks or scheduled tasks, are completed.
2. To export your data, enter the following CLI command:
mxexport -p <password>
-p is mandatory. Specify the password as part of the command or you will be prompted to
enter the password. The password must be a minimum of 8 characters. This password is used
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