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Re: [nv-l] I want an easy move of NetView from AIX to Solaris

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Subject: Re: [nv-l] I want an easy move of NetView from AIX to Solaris
From: Jane Curry <jane.curry@skills-1st.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 19:41:09 +0100
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Hi Tom,
Please see inserts - and good luck!
Cheers,
Jane

Tom.Gebhart@conagrafoods.com wrote:

Greetings all,

We are planning to move our NetView (currently v7.1.2 on AIX 4.3.3, ml10) to a new server. The current server can't support AIX 5.x.

The new server will be Solaris 2.8. I would like to upgrade NetView to v7.1.4 at the same time. I have a case open with support for help/advice but would like to get this group's help/advice as well.

Q1 - Has anyone ever (successfully) migrated their databases from AIX to Solaris? We have a lot of ipmap customizing that I would like to keep in tact if possible.

I believe you have at least half a chance with moving your NetView database from AIX to Solaris - that's the only good possibility between different architectures - never actually tried it though...

Q2 - Would location.conf be any help if new discovery is required? I can't find any doc on how to create a location.conf of my current ipmap short of the tool some people call "vi" (I call it lots of other things whenever I have to use it).

If you can't get your databases over, I'd make sure I took netmon.seed, location.conf and lots of the other files in /usr/OV/conf. Your loaded up MIBs are in snmpmib / snmpmib.bin / snmpmib2 / snmpmib2.bin. Your SNMP data collection info is in snmpCol.conf and make sure you take mibExpr.conf if you use MIB expressions. If you use rulesets take the conf/rulesets directory and ESE.automation. Take communityNames.conf and ovsnmp.conf. Also take your oid_to_type and oid_to_sym (from conf/C) if you have done customisation of them. Take your TEC adapter file, tecint.conf if you use that and take your trap customisation file from C/trapd.conf.

If you don't have a location.conf there is a sample script on the NetView Tivoli User Group website (donated by a public-spirited citizen!) which creates a location.conf from your current configuration. You will need to register on this website to download but you should be able to inspect it easily at
http://www.nv-l.org/twiki/bin/view/Netview/LocationConf

Q3 - I could upgrade to v7.1.3 plus fixpack vice v7.1.4 plus fixpack. Any reason to NOT go with v7.1.4 on Solaris?

Don't know of any reasons not to go to 7.1.4. I've also had the 7.1.4 Fixpack 1 on my Solaris box for a week now and not found any new glitches - some of the new servmon / itmquery stuff has been fixed in the Fixpack.

Thanks in advance for any and all comments, Tom G.



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