Backing up and Restoring HP Insight Management 7.0 Central Management Server (Windows)

mxsync-svcutil manual

For HA CMS configurations, you will also need to make this change for the Insight

Management services that are running on the secondary node. To do this, you must

part of the Insight Management cluster service that need to be changed. These

services are running on both cluster server nodes and will need to be changed manually

on the secondary node. You can stop these services from the command prompt using

the mxsync-svcutil script.

Note:

For HA CMS cluster configurations, Insight Management services

that are configured as cluster resources are already set to Manual.

mxsync-svcutil only changes those Insight Management services

that are not cluster resources.

2. Using the tool of your choice, perform a full system backup of the CMS. In testing for this

whitepaper, Windows backup tools were used as well as disk-based snap-clones for

backups.

Note:

For HA CMS cluster configurations, HP recommends that you follow

the recommended backup procedures from Microsoft for doing a

full backup of the cluster nodes and cluster configuration. See the

Microsoft documentation for additional details:

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc771973.aspx.

For HA CMS configurations, a full backup includes a backup of the

two servers in the cluster and the shared cluster disks.

3. For remote databases only: using the tool of your choice, perform a full backup of the

databases listed in Table 8 from the remote database server. The database backup

must be sufficient to restore the entire database, including schema as well as data.

4. After the backup is complete, the startup type of the Insight Management services

should be reset to Automatic for normal operations. You can do this using the mxsync-

svcutil script, located in <SIM>\mxsync\bin.

mxsync-svcutil auto

For HA CMS configurations, you will also need to make this change for the Insight

Management services that are running on the secondary node. To do this, you must

part of the Insight Management cluster service that need to be changed. These

services are running on both cluster server nodes and will need to be changed manually

on the secondary node. You can stop these services from the command prompt using

the mxsync-svcutil script.

Note:

For HA CMS cluster configurations, Insight Management services

configured as cluster resources should remain set to Manual.

mxsync-svcutil auto will only change the startup type for the

Insight Management services that are not configured as cluster

resources.