Hello! I followed James' backup/restore procedure, below, and it worked
great. With one exception. Netmon apparently totally ignored my seed
file, and discovered the ENTIRE network on top of the database I copied
over to the new system. Any ideas on why this happened, and how I can
prevent it from happening next time?
-----Original Message-----
From: James_Shanks AT TIVOLI DOT COM <James_Shanks AT TIVOLI DOT COM>
To: NV-L AT UCSBVM.UCSB DOT EDU <NV-L AT UCSBVM.UCSB DOT EDU>
Date: Wednesday, July 08, 1998 10:09 AM
Subject: Re: Migrate DB
>Alain Menzies wrote:
>
>
>>Hi all,
>
>>I've got 2 NetViews 4.1.2. Is it possible to copy the dbs from one to
>another ? and >the security configuration ? If yes, could anyone tell
me
>what directories have to be >copied ?
>
>>Thanks
>
>>Alain Menezes Email:
a.menezes AT cger DOT be
>>ASLK-CGER Services GIE Tel.: +32 2 228.55.74
>>Rue Foss?-aux-Loups, 48 Fax.: +32 2
>228.83.69
>>1000 Brussels
>
>
>Migrating databases from one NetView to another is not officially
>supported, but that just means you cannot complain to Support if it
doesn't
>work. Many users do it all the time. I was expecting them to respond ,
but
>as they haven't, I will.
>
>The key to it is the script /usr/OV/service/reset_ci which must be run
>since each database is customized to the machine on which it resides.
>reset_ci will replace the other NetView's information with that of the
>current NetView.
>
>So follow the backup procedure below and ftp the backup or tar file to
the
>target machine, or use tape. Then stop all the daemons on the target
>machine and restore the data there into /usr/OV/databases/openview.
Then
>restart just the first few daemons (ovstart ovtopmd should do it).
Then
>do /usr/OV/service/reset_ci . When that completes successfully, you
>should be able to ovstart again (it will bring up the rest of the
daemons)
>and then start the GUIs.
>
>Good luck, remember this is not officially supported
>
>James Shanks
>Tivoli (NetView for UNIX) L3 Support
Lisa Rodighiero
Client/Server Network Engineering
Visa International
Email: lrodig AT visa DOT com
Phone: 650-432-3855
Fax: 650-432-2532
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