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Appendix A: Quiescing services for a pre v6.0 CMS
Prior to stopping the HP Insight
S
oftware
services and backing up your environment
,
you
must
quiesc
e
Insight
S
oftware components.
The following actions only need to be performed for c
omponents 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 information.
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 icon in the
Status
c
olumn 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 name to sort
the req
uest 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 Logi
cal
Server Automation service.
Logical server jobs that are in
-
progress whe
n 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. Click the
% Complet
e
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
Machin
e 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 configuration 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
colu
mn name to sort the task li
st.
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 performing a
backup.
This
step may be skipped if you are not using the CMS to manage gWLM on
Integrity
nodes.