James,
Thanks for the great suggestions. I will take them to heart. Right now my
thinking is that we need a completely clean install. Your suggestion of
doing the selective backup, taring and storing for future use is a prefered
method. It would give me the opportunity of copying only what I need
while also having the flexibility of having the maximum amount of "stuff"
available.
Thanks,
Mike Walsh
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612-342-3118
"James Shanks"
<jshanks@us.ibm.c To: nv-l@lists.tivoli.com
om> cc: (bcc: Mike
Walsh/US/AMERICAS)
Subject: Re: [nv-l] Question
regarding Files to save
05/27/2003 12:09
PM
Another alternative would be to just clear the databases and leave
everything else. That's and option under "Maintain" in serversetup. You
can even choose an additional option to maintain your smartsets too. Then
rediscovery is controlled by the seed file, assuming you have already set
that up. Then all your conf files are preserved. You can do this any
time, before or after you re-install. You could do it now to see what
you'll get after the OS migration.
If you have to wipe out NetView, then you could always use the "Maintain"
backup selective data function to backup selected data from /usr/OV. This
creates an entire directory structure /usr/OV.back.v7r1 which you can tar
up and store on tape or move elsewhere. Then when you re-install you can
do a migration (upgrade) installation and it will preserve what you have.
You could clear the databases after that to start over any time you like.
You might even want to install clean and keep the (renamed) backup
directory around to pull files from if you decided you want them later.
Your choice.
I think this is easier than trying to decide what conf files to save, but
that's just my view.
James Shanks
Level 3 Support for Tivoli NetView for UNIX and NT
Tivoli Software / IBM Software Group
Jane Curry <jane.curry@skills-1st.co.uk>
05/27/2003 12:26 PM
To: Mike Walsh <Mike.Walsh@us.ing.com>, NetView mailing list
<nv-l@lists.tivoli.com>
cc:
Subject: Re: [nv-l] Question regarding Files to save
I would have a close look at everything in /usr/OV/conf - location.conf
and ovsnmp.conf are 2 others I would add to your list. If you have
created NetView rulesets, back up /usr/OV/conf/rulesets/* along with
/usr/OV/conf/ESE.automation. Have you created any MIB expressions -
/usr/OV/conf/mibExpr.conf. If you have lots of data collections set up
- /usr/OV/conf/snmpCol.conf............
Cheers,
Jane
Mike Walsh wrote:
>Good morning listers,
>
>We are planning to perform some major work on our Netview Servers (SUN),
like upgrade from Sun 7 to SUN 8 as an OS. We would like to completely
wipe
>out everything we have and start over since this particular box has been
a "learning experience" to me with all the related errors of a "Learning
>Experience"
>
>My question is, what files in addition to the seedfile and trapd.conf
would be recommended to carry over to the fresh install. ( I do want to
>completely rebuild the main database with all fresh discoveries based on
the seedfile. )
>
>Thank you all
>
>Mike Walsh
>****Please Note - New EMAIL Address mike.walsh@us.ing.com*********
>612-342-3118
>
>
>
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