Installation guide

Collecting information on IMPAX clients, servers,

stations, and printers

(Topic number: 6721)

Before upgrading to IMPAX 6.5.3, use the migration_inventory tool to capture the current state of

the system for later comparison. Perform this task on any computer with access to the IMPAX 5.2

or 5.3 database and on which the Migration Tools have been installed, or on the IMPAX Database

Server itself.

The tool produces two different reports, depending on the parameters used.

AvailabilityReport producedParameter

Preparing to upgrade phase

only

Full summary of all the Server and Client machines in

the cluster, listing the machines and their functions

(whether the machine has an archive, cache, and so on)

-c

Pre- and post-upgrade

phases

System snapshot that lists the number of studies in the

system and in cache, the number of objects in the system,

-s

and all of the modalities and printers, along with their

related configuration data

Preparing to upgrade phase

only

Both reports-a

To collect information on IMPAX clients, servers, stations, and printers

1. Type

migration_inventory.exe -s [-d database_name -U database_user_name -P

database_password] -D database_server_host_name

If running the command on the Database Server itself, the database name, user name, and

password parameters are optional, but the Database Server host name is still required. The

output is stored in the migration_info table.

2. To create a report file with this information, type

mig_reporter.exe -d mvf_version_number -t system_inventory_tool

This command writes the output of the migration_inventory command to a report file in the

\mvf-mig6\reports directory.

Running an initial report on study archiving status

(Topic number: 6630)

To produce a report of studies that are in cache but are not archived, you can run a command on

any computer with an MVF connection to the IMPAX database (such as the Application Server) or

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