Backing up and restoring HP Insight Management 7.3 Central Management Server (Windows)

Technical white paper | HP Insight Management 7.3
Caution:
• When run in analysis-only mode, an unresolved issue in one phase can cause subsequent analysis phases to report
incomplete or incorrect results.
• When run in execution mode, all issues identified in a phase must be resolved before proceeding to the next phase.
The mxsync tool supports two modes of operation, an analysis-only mode and an execution mode. By default, mxsync
runs in an analysis-only mode. When started in an analysis-only mode, all execution steps are skipped and no updates are
made to the restored databases or files. The analysis-only mode is used to preview the recommended changes for the next
synchronization phase.
mxsync initialization
As a general rule, the Insight Management Windows services should not be running during the execution of mxsync.
However, the mxsync tool does depend on several HP Insight Management Windows services to perform the analysis and
execute steps. Prior to starting the synchronization activity, the mxsync tool checks the status of the Insight Management
services and recommend actions for stopping and starting services.
When run in execution mode, if you respond “y” to the prompt to make the recommended changes, the required services
are started and the nonrequired Insight Management services are stopped. For HA CMS cluster configurations, mxsync will
start and stop the required services as cluster resources.
When run in analysis-only mode, the mxsync tool does not make any changes to the running state of the Windows
services. If the required services are not started, the mxsync tool exits with an error. You must manually start the services
to run mxsync. If nonrequired services are running, mxsync allows the analysis to proceed. However, a warning is
displayed stating that in-progress operations may cause mxsync to report nonexistent issues. If issues are identified when
the system is quiesced, the services should be stopped and the analysis rerun.
Table 13. Services required
Services required by mxsync
Service display name
Requirement by section
Analysis-only Execution
HP Extensible Storage & Server Adapter LSM LSM
HP SPM Storage Module Service LSM LSM
HP Storage Provisioning Manager Service LSM LSM
HP Logical Server Automation LSM, RM LSM, RM
HP Matrix infrastructure orchestration IO, RM IO, RM
HP Insight Control virtual machine management All All
HP Systems Insight Manager All All
HP Global Workload Manager Central
Management Server
All All
OpenSSH Server All All
Pegasus WMI Mapper All All
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Update RM state with underlying Matrix infrastructure orchestration service state for RM
recovery groups with HP IO services.
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