HP Systems Insight Manager 7.2 Installation and Configuration Guide for Microsoft Windows

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 HP
SIM 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 HP SIM 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
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.
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