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Application Discovery Manager Administration Guide
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Restoring an ADM Environment by Using a Product Support Package
To restore an ADM configuration
1 BackupyourADMenvironmentasdescribedin“ProductSupportPackages”onpage 40.
2ContactVMwareCustomerSupporttoretrievethepasswordforextractingtheproductsupportpackage.
3Followthestepsin“RestoretheADMDatabase”onpage 42.
4Ifnecessary,“RestoringtheCustomDiscoveryandConfigurationFiles”onpage 43.
Restore the ADM Database
ThefollowingstepsdescribesrestorationoftheADMdatabaseinanSingle‐Boxanddistributeddeployment.
Chapter 1describesthedifferentADMdeploymentoptions:
1LogintotheAggregatororSingle‐Boxapplianceasuserroot.
2 Createatemporarydirectory:
mkdir supportpackagedir
3CopythesupportpackageintothetemporarydirectorythatyoucreatedinStep 2.
4Extractthesupportpackageintothetemporarydirectory:
unzip support_package__version_date_and_timestamp.zip
whereversion_date_and_timestampistheuniqueidentifierofthepackage.
5Whenpromptedforthepassword,typethepasswordyouretrievedfromVMwareCustomerSupport.
6Afterextractioncompletes,copythedatabasebackupfile:
supportpackagedir/supportpackage/backup.db_dump-main-db_schema_build-db_dump.gz
wheredb_schema_buildisthedatabaseschemaversionandbuildnumber.
7Placethecopiedfileinthefollowingdirectory:
/home/nlayers/Seneca/db_scripts/oracle
8Typethefollowingcommandtostoptheengineservice:
/adm_control.pl --stop engine
9Typethefollowingcommandtoswitchtothenlayersuser:
su - nlayers
10 Changedirectoryto:
cd /home/nlayers/Seneca/db_scripts/oracle
11 Logintotheserveruserasnlayersandcreatethedatabaseentitiesbyrunningthefollowingcommands:
cd ~nlayers/Seneca/db_scripts/oracle
./db_create.sh prod
12 Typethefollowingcommandtorestorethedbbackup:
./db_restore.sh backup.db_dump-main-db_schema_build-db_dump.gz prod
IMPORTANTIfyouaremigratingtoanewappliance,followtheinstructionsin“MigratingtoaNew
Appliance”onpage 51.
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OTEInthefollowingsections,thedirectoryinwhichtheproductsupportpackagefilesareextractedis
calledassupportpackagedir.
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OTEInadistributeddeploymentthedatabaseisrestoredthroughtheAggregator.Inasplitsetupwith
remotedatabase,databaseisrestoredontheDatabasemachine.