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

Restoring your environment

This section describes the steps to restore your environment from backup. Table 10 contains

a high-level description of the restore and recovery steps.

Table 10. Overview of restore and recovery steps

Step Action

mxsync-svcutil stop restore

Restoring your environment

1-4 Using the tools of your choice, restore the Insight Management environment from

backup.

Completing the recovery process

mxsync -e

Note:

Execution mode (-e) should only be enabled if a backup copy of the Insight

Management databases and data files is available.

mxsync-svcutil auto

mxsync-svcutil start

4-12 Where necessary, manually re-issue (and clean up) the operations that were

performed after backup.

If restoring an infrastructure orchestration federated CMS secondary CMS,

additional steps are provided in the step by step detailed instructions.

1. If necessary, first restore the CMS environment from the full system backup.

Warning:

Before proceeding, please be sure that all Insight Management services are

stopped and the system time is set correctly. In particular, the system

time should not predate the backup.

For a list of services to stop, see Table 9. You can stop the services

using the mxsync-svcutil script as shown in Table 10

2. Using the file management tool of your choice, restore the directories and files listed in

Table 7.You must use a tool that preserves file and directory permissions such as the

Windows Server Backup tool.

3. For local or remote databases: Using the tool of your choice, restore the databases

listed in Table

8. You must restore each database using the same database name that

existed when the database was saved.

4. If you have saved a more recent version of the HP Matrix infrastructure orchestration

network files, <HPIO>\data\Subnet_<network name>.xml, overwrite the restored

versions with the more up-to-date copies.