Data migration of an existing Microsoft Windows CMS to a new Insight Software 6.1 system

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Step 5: Un
-
securing communications
on the CMS
when Insight Dynamics
Global Workload Manager (gWLM) is in use
This step may be skipped if you are not using the CMS to manage gWLM nodes.
If secure communications are in use,
please
unsecure communications on the CMS and all managed
nodes
.
Secu
re communications must be in the same state [enabled or disabled] for the CMS and all
gWLM managed nodes
.
To unsecure communications:
1.
Select
SIM Configure
ID Agents
Reset Communications
. You are prompted for a list of
systems.
2.
Provide a complete list of a
ll the managed systems from all Shared Resource Domains (SRDs),
either all at once or SRD by SRD.
Step 6: Quiescing running services on the source CMS
Prior to stopping
the
Insight Software
services
, which is required before the export can run,
the
Insight
Software components must be quiesced
.
See
Appendix A: Quiescing services on Source CMS
.
Step 7: Insight Software services on the source CMS version 6.1 will be
stopped automatically.
Note:
If
version 6.0 or earl
ier of
HP Insight Software is installed
on the source
CMS
, services need to be stopped manually.
See
Data Migration of an
Existing MS Windows CMS to a New Insight
Software 6.0 System
for a list
of services to stop.
Step 8: Running the export utility on the source CMS
The export utility is a command line interface (CLI) command that must be run from a standard
command prompt on a Windows operating system. The expor
t utility must be executed by a user that
has OS
-
level Administrative privileges, and should be the same user that installed the Insight Software
on the source CMS
The export command
-
line (CLI) command and syntax is
:
mxexport [
f
<filename>] [
-
p pass]
Whe
re the parameters are listed in the following:
-
f
O
ptional
.
C
an be used to specify a different filename or path for the export archive. The default
file name is Products.zip and is placed in the
<SIM Install Path>
\
data
\
configdata
-
export
directory
-
p
O
ptio
nal
.
Enables
the password to be passed in on the command line for non
-
interactive
operations such as a script.
This is the password that will be used to encrypt the exported file,
Products.zip
.
If
p is not specified
,
the user
is
prompted to enter the pass
word
in a secure
fashion. HP recommends not specifying the password on the command line
.
The password must be at
least 8 characters long, but should not be your domain password.
For example: