Backing up and Restoring HP Insight Management 7.0 Central Management Server (Windows)
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Preparing your environment for backup
If the HP Insight Management CMS environment has been lost or corrupted, it may be
necessary to restore your environment from a backup copy. HP recommends periodically
performing a full system backup. A partial backup may be performed between full system
backups. The section Saving your environment describes the steps to perform a backup of
only the HP Insight Management files, directories, and databases that contain user
changeable state and configuration data. To successfully restore a partial backup the
CMS must be running the same version of the software that was running when the full
system backup was performed. A full system backup should be performed whenever the
software on the CMS is updated.
Note:
HP does not require the backup and restore of the HP Insight
Management CMS to be synchronized with the backup and restore
of other management tools in the data center. Although the
backup and restore of the Insight Management components
should be synchronized, they can be done independently of the
backup and restore of other management tools such as VMWare
vCenter and HP Virtual Connect Manager. Furthermore, in HP
Matrix infrastructure orchestration federated CMS configurations,
backups and restores of the primary and secondary CMSs are
independent.
To create a valid backup of your CMS, HP recommends that you first allow all running jobs
and tasks to complete before stopping the Insight Management services. The following
actions must be performed only for components that are installed and currently in use in
your environment.
1. Ensure all in-progress Matrix recovery management jobs have completed. You can view
the status of Matrix recovery management jobs by selecting Matrix recovery
management… from the Tools menu in Systems Insight Manager. Select the Jobs tab to
view the status of jobs. A job with the ”in progress” icon in the Status column has not yet
finished.
Figure 1. Wait for all Matrix recovery management jobs to complete