Yes, you can copy the seedfile and the MibExpr.conf. But ovsnmp.conf is of
no use to you. The actual data is kept in ovsnmp.conf_db and what you see
in ovsnmp.conf is only derivative from that. It is maintained as a
repository for those third party apps which read that file rather use the
published API's. You MAY be able to copy the ovsnmp.conf_db over from 4.1
and run xnmsnmpconf (see the man page) to dump a list of what's in it to
another file, and later upload that into the current 5.1 one. I think the
internal structure of the db may have changed because you can now set
values by collections. As for snmpCol.conf, I don't know.
I think you'd be better off de-installing 5.1 altogether and trying Ray
Schafer's procedure for creating the backup. There was never any testing
done except for the standard migration procedure. That's works. Anything
else you do is unsupported and untried.
James Shanks
Tivoli (NetView for UNIX) L3 Support
Jeanie Cham <yccham@NCS.COM.SG> on 03/05/99 08:19:43 PM
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Subject: Re: Netview Upgrade
Hi James,
The worst thing is that I'll have to settle this for him....:(
Correct me if I'm wrong. The mibExpr.conf & netmon.seed files should be
able
to be copied over safely. However, are there any difference in the
ovsnmp.conf & snmpCol.conf between version 4 & 5.1?
Thanks.
cheers,
Jeanie
James_Shanks@TIVOLI.COM wrote:
> This will not work.
> Your customer has shot himself in the foot. If you just copy old stuff,
> you will be missing parts required for the new.
> He has two choices.
> (1) He can customize his running 5.1 system from scratch
> (2) He can re-install his 4.1 system (somehwere else if has another
> machine) and follow the procedure outlined in the 5.1 Release Notes for
> doing a migration, which is what he now says he wants. That means he has
> to run the migration script to
> create a directory called "/usr/OV.back.v4r1". He then has to re-install
> 5.1 on his current machine with that directory present. The install
> scripts will find it and merge his old customiztion with the new stuff
> required for V5.1. Nothing else is guarnateed to work.
>
> James Shanks
> Tivoli (NetView for UNIX) L3 Support
>
> Jeanie Cham <yccham@NCS.COM.SG> on 03/05/99 06:06:21 AM
>
> Please respond to Discussion of IBM NetView and POLYCENTER Manager on
> NetView <NV-L@UCSBVM.ucsb.edu>
>
> To: NV-L@UCSBVM.ucsb.edu
> cc: (bcc: James Shanks)
> Subject: Netview Upgrade
>
> 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?
>
> Please advise. Thanks.
>
> cheers,
> Jeanie
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