What platform are you asking about? Be aware that while this procedure
often works, it is not officially supported. If you mess it up, or have
problems, Support is going to say "Delete and re-discover", so be careful.
To be successful the boxes must be of the same operating system and the
same version of NetView. I prefer them to be at the same approximate
maintenance level as well. Then you must stop any GUIs, and at least
netmon and snmpCollect so that no one is writing to the databases. Then
you can copy /usr/OV/databases/openview to some medium. There are lots of
ways to do this. tar is one, cpio, pax, and backup can be used as well on
UNIX. I believe that just copy works on NT. You have to copy all the
files and subdirectories. Then you have to put them on the other machine.
How you do that is your business but if you ftp make sure you use binary
mode. The daemons on the remote system should be down (ovwdb and ovtopmd
do not like having their databases overwritten while they are up).
On NT you should just be able to restart the daemons and all should be
well. On UNIX, you have some more problems to worry about. The databases
are sparse filesystems and if you use tar to archive them, they will take
up more space when you untar them. This may not be a problem in some
installations but with large databases it is. One way to avoid this is to
use pax to "untar" your archive, but while pax preserves sparse files,
it does not preserve permissions unless you tell it to. I do it like
this:
cd /usr/OV/databases/openview
tar -cvf <filename> * ( this creates your
archive, I usually do it to tape, /dev/rmt0, rather than a file)
On the other machine, cd /usr/OV/databases/openview
pax -vf <filename> (same as tar -tvf <filename>) (make sure
you can read the archive)
pax -rp e -f <filename> (like tar -xvf <filename>) ( the
-p e preserves the permissions)
One last step, the UNIX databases are unique to each machine, so once they
have been restored on the target machine, you must start the daemons and
then run /usr/OV/service/reset_ci to replace the old machine data with the
new.
Then you can bring up the GUI.
James Shanks
Tivoli (NetView for UNIX) L3 Support
Khaya Florida <fkhaya@WOOLWORTHS.COM.AU> on 10/08/98 07:26:58 PM
Please respond to Discussion of IBM NetView and POLYCENTER Manager on
NetView et alia <NV-L@UCSBVM.UCSB.EDU>
To: NV-L@UCSBVM.UCSB.EDU
cc: (bcc: James Shanks)
Subject: Re: Databases between AIX and NT
What were the steps you used to move (tar) openview dbs from 1 system to
another ? Attempted same with no success (tar & ftp). What are the
limitations on source & target systems, eg, they must be in same subnet,
etc
??
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Prokott, Joe [SMTP:Joe.Prokott@WESTGROUP.COM]
> Sent: Friday, 9 October 1998 0:22
> To: NV-L@UCSBVM.ucsb.edu
> Subject: Re: Databases between AIX and NT
>
> James,
>
> Overlaying then is what I mean. Using tar, we are able to backup the
> entire
> /usr/OV/databases/openview/ directory structure and move it to another
> system when going from one AIX system to another AIX system. My question
> is
> can I tar up this same directory structure on an AIX system and then
untar
> it onto an NT platform? Will this then function on NT? Thanks,
>
> Joe Prokott - West Group
> Network Architect
> 610 Opperman Drive
> St. Paul, MN 55123
> Phone: 651-687-4536
> Fax: 651-687-6946
> E-mail: joe.prokott@westgroup.com
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: James_Shanks@TIVOLI.COM [SMTP:James_Shanks@TIVOLI.COM]
> > Sent: Thursday, October 08, 1998 8:55 AM
> > To: NV-L@UCSBVM.UCSB.EDU
> > Subject: Re: Databases between AIX and NT
> >
> > There is no such utility. You cannot unload a database from one
machine
> > and load it on another even within the same operating system platform
--
> > AIX to AIX for example. All you can do is physically overlay one
> > machine's
> > database with that from another, using an external utility like tar.
> >
> > If you think such a utility is a useful addition to the product, then I
> > recommend you send a note to netview@tivoli.com for consideration in a
> > future release.
> >
> > James Shanks
> > Tivoli (NetView for UNIX) L3 Support
> >
> >
> >
> > "Prokott, Joe" <Joe.Prokott@WESTGROUP.COM> on 10/07/98 06:43:48 PM
> >
> > Please respond to Discussion of IBM NetView and POLYCENTER Manager on
> > NetView et alia <NV-L@UCSBVM.UCSB.EDU>
> >
> > To: NV-L@UCSBVM.UCSB.EDU
> > cc: (bcc: James Shanks)
> > Subject: Databases between AIX and NT
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Is it possible to transfer a NV database from TME 10 NetView for AIX
5.1
> > to
> > NetView for NT 5.1 or vice versa? I am just wondering if there is any
> way
> > we can import our AIX database into our NT version? It would be very
> > handy
> > if there was some sort of conversion program that would allow this.
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Joe Prokott - West Group
> > Network Architect
> > 610 Opperman Drive
> > St. Paul, MN 55123
> > Phone: 651-687-4536
> > Fax: 651-687-6946
> > E-mail: joe.prokott@westgroup.com
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