Backing up and restoring HP Systems Insight Manager 7.2 or greater database in a HP-UX or Linux Environment

White paper | HP Systems Insight Manager 7.2
4 | March 2013
Backing up and restoring
data files for a PostgreSQL
database
Backing up data files for a PostgreSQL database
Backing up the database with PostgreSQL requires changing the Systems Insight Manager
database user password and saving the database and associated files.
1. If Systems Insight Manager is running, enter mxstop in the command line to stop the
Systems Insight Manager daemons.
2. To verify that all Systems Insight Manager mx processes have stopped, enter the
following command:
ps -ef | grep mx
If there is an mx process running, stop the process by entering the following command:
kill -9 <process id>
3. Using the file management utility of your choice, back up the configuration files listed in
Table 1.
Table 1. Configuration files that must be backed up
File directory
Description
/etc/opt/mx/config
Directory of configuration files
/var/opt/mx/config/
Additional configuration files
/etc/opt/hp/sslshare/
Shared OpenSSL certificate directory
/var/opt/mx/logs/mx.log
Audit file
/opt/mx/patch
Program updates (required if Systems Insight Manager is to
be reinstalled)
/opt/mx/bin/server_cert.
pem
Certificate used by the command line interface (CLI)
/opt/mx/bin/CLIClientCon
fig.cgf
CLI configuration file
/var/opt/mx/output
Optional: Contains job result output
/opt/mx/mibs
Contains .mib files
/var/opt/mx/actions
Contains .xml files