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Re: Netview Upgrade

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Subject: Re: Netview Upgrade
From: Ray Schafer <schafer@TKG.COM>
Date: Sat, 6 Mar 1999 19:31:12 +0000
Organization: The Kernel Group
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Sender: Discussion of IBM NetView and POLYCENTER Manager on NetView <NV-L@UCSBVM.UCSB.EDU>
Jeanie Cham wrote:

> Hi,
>
> My customer wants to make a freshly installed Netview 5.1 have identical
> confiuration with what he had for Netview 4.  Unfortunately, he has
> wiped out the system for an OS upgrade, but not before backing up the
> entire system.
>
> Now, how can I port over all the configuration previously used in
> Netview 4.  Can I just copy over the conf files in the /usr/OV/conf
> directory to the new installation?  Are there any other files I need?

James may be right, you may have to reload the entire system to do a
successful migration.  However, this may be worth a try:

If this is on AIX: Make a logical volume, and create a /usr/OV filesystem
on it.
If other UNIX:  Make a drive partition, and create a /usr/OV/ filesystem on
it.

Mount the filesystem and  restore /usr/OV from the backup.  You might also
have to link all the files in /usr/OV/lib to /usr/lib like so (but I am not
sure if it's necessary):
#!/bin/ksh
cd /usr/OV/lib
for libfile in *
do
    ln -s /usr/OV/lib/$libfile /usr/lib/$libfile
done



You will be missing the smit entries, so you will have to run the backup
script by hand.  I am going by memory here, but if you take a look at
/usr/OV/bin/nv6000_server, there is an option to create a backup.  On AIX
it will create a /usr/OV.back.4.1 filesystem (or some such), mount it, ,
and populate it with all the files you need for the migration.

Then do rm -r /usr/OV/*  and install the new Netview.  If this fails, then
you'll need to restall as James instructed.

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Ray Schafer                   | schafer@tkg.com
The Kernel Group              | Distributed Systems Management
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