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RSA Authentication Manager 6.1 to 8.1 Migration Guide
4 Primary Server Migration
Migrating the Primary Server
Perform these steps to migrate your existing RSA Authentication Manager server
(either a non-Appliance server with RSA Authentication Manager 6.1 or later, or RSA
SecurID Appliance 2.0 or later, which includes version 6.1) to RSA Authentication
Manager 8.1.
Before You Begin
• Back up the version 8.1 database. See Back Up the Version 8.1 Deployment on
page 43.
• If you plan to migrate version 6.1 RADIUS data into the version 8.1 deployment,
migrate the RADIUS data before migrating the primary instance data. See
RADIUS Migration
on page 49.
Procedure
1. Dump the database and log from version 6.1, and transfer the dump file and other
migration files to a location that you can access through the Operations Console
on version 8.1. You can import these files through your local machine, a Network
File System (NFS), a Windows shared folder, or from a directory in the
Authentication Manager 8.1 server. See RSA Authentication Manager 6.1
Database Dump on page 58.
2. Migrate the version 6.1 data to version 8.1. See Perform a Typical Mode
Migration on page 66 or Perform a Custom Mode Migration on page 69.
3. Review the migration report to check for any issues with migration. Correct any
issues in the version 6.1 database.
4. If the migration is not successful, restore the version 8.1 database to a freshly
installed state and repeat tasks 2, 3, and 4.
To return the version 8.1 database to the same state as when it was first installed,
you must restore it using a backup. After a restore, the database is effectively
empty, except for the Super Admin record and version 8.1 default values, for
example, default policies. Once you restore the database, you can repeat the
process of creating a dump file of the version 6.1 database and migrating it to
version 8.1. Once you have verified that the data is formatted correctly, you can
perform the remaining procedures described in this chapter.
For instructions on restoring the database from a backup, see “Primary Instance
Data Restoration” in the Disaster Recovery chapter of the RSA Authentication
Manager 8.1 Administrator’s Guide.
5. Migrate the version 6.1 log files. See Migrate Log Files
on page 75.