Systems Insight Manager 6.2 Installation and Configuration Guide for MS Windows

The installation or upgrade status of HP Systems Insight Manager and selected components are logged in
the HP Systems Insight Manager.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
6.0 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 6.0 system on a 32-bit operating
system to a Systems Insight Manager 6.0 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 6.0 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 <passwordgt;
-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 to encrypt the
exported file for security reasons. The password you enter here will be required to import the data.
• -f is optional. If you do not pass the filename, a Products.zip file is created in
[HPSIM]\data\configdata-export.
• -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 to encrypt
the exported file for security reasons. The password you enter here will be required to import the
data.
If a component (also known as Essentials or a plug-in) fails to export its data, the export operation is
not aborted. The data migration tool continues to execute the remaining components.
Database tables and files that are specified in component specific configuration XML files are exported.
Importing data from a CMS
1. Before data can be imported, the following requirements must be met:
• All operating system and database level user credentials on source CMS must be created on target
CMS.
• Target CMS must have HP Insight Software 6.0 or later installed.
• The CMS must be a clean installation and have no prior configurations.
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