Owner's Manual

28 Migrating the Dell OpenManage IT Assistant Discovery Settings
The Database Migration User Interface
You can access the database migration link by clicking Home  Dell
Management Console Portal. In the Dell Enterprise Management Quick
Start Web part, on the Getting Started tab, click Migrate Dell OpenManage
IT Assistant Discovery Settings.
Points to Note Before Migrating the IT Assistant
Discovery Settings
• You can migrate only the discovery ranges from IT Assistant 8.0 and
later to the Dell Management Console database.
• After you start the database migration process, you cannot cancel or
stop the migration.
• You can also migrate data from a
remote IT Assistant database and from a
named instance of the database. Ensure that the connection between the
local system and the remote database is working.
• Before migrating discovery ranges, to reduce the load on the
Dell Management Console system, you can reduce the number of
threads used for each discovery task. To change the default value of 40,
go to
Settings  All Settings . On the right hand pane, under Settings 
Discovery and Inventory  Network Discovery Settings , change the default
value.
If you want to change the network discovery settings after migration,
you will have to select each discovery task and edit it. For more
information, see “Discovery Performance.”
Remote Database
To specify the remote database, ensure that the connection between the local
system and the remote database is working. To enable the remote database
connection, see “Enabling Remote Connection to SQL Server 2005 or 2008
Express.” Provide the IT Assistant database location and the authentication
mode.
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Authentication — Ensure that the username and
password is the same for both IT Assistant and Dell Management Console.
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