Data migration of an existing Microsoft Windows CMS to a new Insight Management 7.0 system

Note:

The password must have a minimum of eight characters and must be

alphanumeric.

Note:

A customized location can be provided to store the exported data. See the

support parameters in Step 9: Running the export utility on the source CMS

Note:

The source CMS must not be rebooted until the import is complete. If the

source CMS is rebooted, it restarts the Insight Management services. As a

precaution, HP recommends setting the auto start mode for the services to

manual. For the list of services, see Appendix B: Stop order of services,

Table 11

, Service Display Name column.

After a successful export operation, the default export file, Products.zip, is created in folder

<HPSIM install Path>\data\configdate-export. For an example of a successful export

operation, see Figure 1.

Because changes made to the managed environment after the export is done are not part of the

exported file, the source CMS Insight Management services must not be restarted to help ensure that

no changes are made from the source CMS. If changes are made after an export operation, HP

recommends rerunning the export utility. Failure to do so might result with the target CMS being out of

sync with the managed environment. The export operation can be executed multiple times on the

source CMS. The export file is overwritten each time if the same file name is specified.

Figure 1: Console output of export execution

C:\>mxexport -f Products.zip

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:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-:-: HP Insight Management Data Migration Tool Launcher

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Please re-type the password.

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All HP Insight Management running services will be stopped.