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
10 | March 2013
Backing up and restoring
data files for an Oracle
database
The following procedures describe saving (backing up) and restoring data files for a system using
an Oracle database that is using Systems Insight Manager.
Important: Only a user with Oracle Database Administration (DBA) privileges can conduct the
backup and restore procedures.
Saving data files for use with Oracle
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 an mx process is running, stop the process by entering the following command:
kill -9 <process id>
3. Using the file management utility of your choice, save the configuration files listed in
Table 2.
Table 2. Configuration files to save
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 CLI
/opt/mx/bin/CLIClientConfig
.cfg
CLI configuration file
/opt/mx/mibs
Contains .mib files
/var/opt/mx/actions
Contains .xml files