HP Insight Management 7.3 DMT White Paper

3. In the command prompt window, execute the export command:

mxexport

4. A prompt for a data encryption password appears. Type the password and press the

Enter key. The password does not appear in clear text.

5. A dialog appears stating All HP Insight Management running services will be stopped. Do

you want to continue? Type Y and press the Enter key to proceed for migration. If you

type N and press the Enter key, the migration is aborted.

Important: Record or remember the password because it must be provided during the import operation.

Note: A customized location can be provided to store the exported data. See the export parameters in Step 9: Running

the export utility on the source CMS.

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 13, Service Display Name column.

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

<SIM install Path>\data\configdata-export. For an example of a successful

export operation, see Figure 1: Console output of export execution.

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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:-:-:-:-:-:-:-: Enter password:

Re-type the password:

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