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

Abstract

The purpose of this white paper is to assist IT professionals in performing backup and

recovery of HP Insight Management 7.0 running on a Microsoft

Windows

-based Central

Management Server (CMS).

Insight Management software products are designed to address the most difficult issues

encountered by IT organizations: cost, time, energy, and change. With flexible and

integrated software that unifies the management of hardware resources and scales to

businesses of all sizes, HP Insight Management enables you to:

• Take control of your time by simplifying management of HP ProLiant and HP BladeSystem

infrastructures

• Reduce risk by identifying and resolving issues faster

• Drive business growth through flexible infrastructure deployment and optimization

• Lower cost through more efficient use of staff and facilities

Introduction

If the HP Insight Management CMS environment becomes lost or corrupted, it may be

necessary to restore your environment from a backup copy.

Note:

The details described in this paper are specific to the Insight

Management software components included on the HP Insight

Management 7.0 DVD. See the Scope

section for additional details.

The Preparing your environment for backup section in this white paper describes the steps

to quiesce the HP Insight Management environment prior to performing a backup. In the

section Saving your environment, the steps to perform a full system backup or partial

backup of the HP Insight Management files, directories and databases that contain user

changeable state and configuration data are described. A partial backup can be

performed between full system backups. The steps to restore the environment are

described in the Preparing your environment for restore and Restoring your environment

sections. Finally the Completing the recovery process section describes a set of best

practices to resynchronize the environment after the data has been restored. HP

recommends periodically testing your backup and restore procedures in a non-production

environment.

Note:

This paper describes the backup and restoration of the same

system for fault insurance purposes only. It does not apply to system

migration or software upgrades.