HP Systems Insight Manager 6.3 Command Line Interface Guide

mximport enables you to perform the data migration import functionality. This is used to import
data from an installation of HP Insight Control Suite 3.0 or later to an installation of HP Insight
Control Suite 6.0. This tool takes a zip file as input
Options
mximport recognizes the following options:
• -f
Specifies the name of the zip file. If a file name is not specified, the zip file will be read from
Systems Insight Manager's installed location \data\configdata-import with name as
Products.zip.
• -p
Specifies the password. Minimum allowed length is 8 characters. If a password is not specified
along with the command, you will be prompted to enter the password. This prevents the clear
text password from being exposed to unintended eyes. This password is the same one that
was given for mxexport on the source server.
Prerequisites
1. You must be a member of the local Windows Administrators group.
2. The server has HP Insight Control Suite 6.0 or later installed, which includes HP SIM 6.0 or
later. All HP Insight Control software that were installed on source server must be installed on
target server as well.
3. Stop the Systems Insight Manager service and all other HP Insight Control software before
running import function.
4. The CMS must be a clean installation and have no prior configurations.
5. All OS and database-level user credentials on source CMS must be created on target CMS.
6. See “Remote SQL Server database settings” (page 47) for more information if a remote
database is used for import.
IMPORTANT: This tool truncates all data from the concerned databases before it actually imports
the data. HP recommends that you take a snapshot of all databases before proceeding with import.
The snapshot can be taken in the following means - by running mxexport on the server, on any
user specific database backup method. If import fails. the database can be recovered from the
snapshot.
Return value
No return value.
Note: If one HP Insight Control software fails during import, the entire import function fails.
Supported platforms
All versions of Systems Insight Manager supported Windows operating systems.
All versions of Systems Insight Manager supported SQL server local or remote database.
Post-migration steps
1. HP recommends running the Configure or Repair Agent settings on the target CMS against
the discovered systems. The options chosen should include to reset the trap, indication
destinations as well as reconfigure any certificates used by the System Management
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