Data migration of an existing Microsoft Windows CMS to a new Insight Software 6.2 system

3
Introduction
The Insight Software data migration
tools (DMT) provide an easy mechanism to migrate an existing
Insight Software central management server (CMS) from one system environment to another. These
tools are designed to relocate a CMS to a new hosted environment when there is a need to change
the
underlying hardware or operating system of the CMS, without losing any of the customized data
located on the CMS. The data migrated to the target CMS environment includes the configuration
information such as system credentials, tasks, collections, license
s, and addresses for supplemental
management servers, plus management database information which includes discovered systems,
performance data, and profiles
Migration involves export and import
operations
.
First, t
he export
operation
run
s
on the source CMS
,
which
generate
s
a large compressed zip file containing configuration data from the existing CMS
database.
Then, t
he import operation decompresses this data and imports it on the new, or target
,
CMS. The target CMS
can
be hosted either on a new system in
the infrastructure or on the same
system.
If it is hosted on the same system, then a new hostname and IP address is required for the
target CMS
From this release, data migration supports the
Highly A
vailable MSCS C
luster CMS
. Steps for Non
-
Cluster CMS and
Cluster CMS are documented in the same white paper. By default all the steps in the
document are applicable for both, unless explicitly mentioned as Non
-
Cluster CMS or Cluster CMS.
Note:
N
o additional parameters
are
required for
export
ing
a Cluster CMS, bu
t
two additional parameters are
required for
import
ing
.
Note:
HP recommends that a separate server be used for the target CMS.
However, you can use the same server as the source and target CMS when
new hardware is not available, the target CMS must not be
a cluster CMS,
and the
OS needs to be reinstalled from a 32
-
bit version to a 64
-
bit
version.
You must
to have
a
unique hostname and IP whether the same or
separate server is used
.
The migration utility does not copy any program executables or OS level conf
igurations. For example,
an OS username and password is not copied by the migration utility. Therefore, Insight Software v6.2
must be installed on the target CMS before performing the import. Any existing Insight Software
configuration data on the target C
MS is overwritten with source CMS information when the data is
imported.
S
cenarios where the migration utility applies when moving from an older SQL server version or
Windows
S
erver
®
version to a newer version
include:

Moving from a 32
-
bit OS installation
to a 64
-
bit OS installation on a new hardware system.

Moving from an older 64
-
bit system to a newer and faster 64
-
bit system.

Moving from a 32
-
bit OS installation to a 64
-
bit OS installation on the same hardware system.

Moving from a 32
-
bit OS installation
to a new 32
-
bit OS installation on a new hardware system.