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Chapter 7 Migrating to a New Appliance

Restoring WinApe Migration Files

ThefollowingproceduresdescribestherestorationofWinApemigrationfiles.

1LogintotheWinApeappliance.

2Copytheadkbcustom.jar backupfile.

3 Navigatetothe\libfolder.

4Replacethecurrentfilein\libfolderwiththecopiedfile.

5Runtheservices.msccommand.

6RestarttheserviceVMwarevCenterADMWindowsCollector.

Data Restoration

ThissectionprovidesinformationaboutdatarestorationforSingle‐Box,distributed,anddistributedwith

remotedatabasesolution.

Single-Box Solution

1RestoretheADMdatabaseasdescribedin“RestoringanADMEnvironmentbyUsingaProductSupport

Package”onpage 42.

2Restorethecustomdiscoveryandconfigurationfilesasdescribedin“RestoringtheCustomDiscovery

andConfigurationFiles”onpage 43.

3ForWinApe,firstcreatethebackupasdescribedin“BackingUpWinApeMigration

Files”onpage 52and

thenrestoreitasdescribedin“RestoringWinApeMigrationFiles”onpage 53.

Distributed Solutions

Thesestepsapplytodistributedsolutionswithoutaremotedatabase.Performthefollowingstepsonall

appliancesinthefollowingorder:Collectors,WinApe,andAggregator.

Collectors

RepeatthefollowingstepsforeachCollectorappliance:

1LogintotheCollectorvirtualappliance.

2Restorethecustomdiscoveryandconfigurationfilesasdescribedin“RestoringtheCustomDiscovery

andConfigurationFiles”onpage 43.

WinApe

RepeatthefollowingstepsforeachWindowsappliance:

1LogintotheWinApeappliance.

2 BackuptheWinApemigrationfilesasdescribedin“BackingUpWinApeMigrationFiles”onpage 52.

3RestoretheWinApemigrationfilesasdescribedin“RestoringWinApeMigrationFiles”onpage 53.

NOTEBackupyourADMenvironmentasdescribedin“BackingUpWinApeMigrationFiles”onpage 52.