Moving HP SIM 5.x to a new Windows system (441289-003, January 2009)

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Introduction
This white paper is intended to assist system administrators in migrating the HP Systems Insight
Manager (HP SIM) 5.x database to a new HP SIM 5.x Windows system, including:
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Migrating HP SIM 5.x with local MSDE/SQL Server 2005 Express database to another HP SIM
system with remote MS SQL 2000/SQL 2005 database
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Migrating HP SIM 5.x with local MSDE/SQL Server 2005 Express database to another HP SIM
system with remote MS SQL 2000/SQL 2005 database
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Migrating from the source CMS to the target CMS
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Migrating HP VMM/HP SMP with a local MSDE database to another HP VMM/HP SMP with
remote MS SQL database
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Target audience
It is assumed that readers of this document have an excellent understanding of the following concepts
and services:
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Basic Microsoft® Windows® 2000 services
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Basic Microsoft® Windows® host configuration
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Basic ODBC configuration
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TCP/IP an
d DNS network concepts
In addition, readers must be familiar with installing and administering:
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Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Server/Advanced Server, Microsoft® Windows® Server 2003
Standard/ Enterprise Edition, MSDE 2000, SQL Express 2005
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Microsoft SQL Server
2000, SQL Server 2005
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HP SIM 5.x