Data migration of an existing Microsoft Windows CMS to a new Insight Software 6.1 system
Importing the data to the target CMS
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Step 1: Ensuring the target CMS is prepared for an import operation
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Step 2: Configuring a remote database access for the import operation to the target CMS
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Step 3: Copying saved files to the target CMS
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Step 4: The Insight Software Services on the target CMS version 6.1 and above will be stopped automatically
by the import tool.
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Refer to “Appendix B: Stop order of services”
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Step 5: Running the import utility on the target CMS
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IMPORTANT:
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Figure 2:
Console output of import tool operation
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p 6: Configure Insight Dynamics Global Workload Manager property file
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Step 7: Restarting the Insight Software services on the
target CMS
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Table 3
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Post import operation tasks
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Step 1: Verifying the imp
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Step 2: Manually copy wbemportlist.xml from Source CMS to Target CMS
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Step 3: Verifying SMTP settings on the target CMS
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Step 4: Re
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entering vCenter credentials on the target CMS
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Step 5: Manually run the migration CRA task on the target CMS
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Step 6: Running daily system identification on the target C
MS
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Step 7: Running daily data collection just for the CMS
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Step 8: Running managed system setup wizard on the target CMS
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Step 9: Updating the IP address of CMS in managed blade enclosures
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Step 10: Redeploying Shared Resource Domains when
using Insight Dynamics Global Workload Manager
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Step 11: Migrating the Insight Dynamics orchestration users to the correspondin
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CMS when using Insight Dynamics orchestration
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Step 12
: If using Insight Dynamics recovery management, perform the following operations
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Step 13: Reconfiguring Insight Control server
deployment agents
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Step 14: Reinstalling and reconfiguring Insight Remote Support
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Step 15: Updating bookmarks
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Scenarios not supported
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Insight Software components that do not support migration
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Appendix A: Quiescing services on Source CMS
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Appendix B: Stop order of services
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FAQ’s
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Troubleshooting
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Scenario 1: Out of memory error
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When does this happen
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Scenario 2: If an export of some plugins fails:
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Scenario 3: In Application Discovery the results of template is not the same on the target CMS as was on the
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When does this happen
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Solution
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Scenario 4: The export or import includes all products, only wanted HP SIM data.
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When does this happen
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Solution
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For more information
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