Change Device IP in HP-IMC

[ctc-edvadmin]

Hello,

I want to know how to change the device-ip in HP IMC.

I´ve read this post:

http://www.netopscommunity.net/forums/-/message_boards/message/39312

With this guide the change of the device-ip will be made.

After this, the device is pingable from IMC, but testing the SNMP-connection will result in an error.

I think the old device-ip is still somewhere in the dabase?

When I role back the device-ip-change, everything is fine and modifiing snmp-labels will work.

I hope somebody can help me.

The other way will be deleting the whole device and discover it with new ip. But then my historical data will be lost.

Regards,

Michael

[SergeyPankratov]

Hello Michael,

This is the forum for NNMi questions. I doubt IMC experts monitor this forum. NNMi and IMC are totaly different products.

Best regards,

[AlexisKoch]

Hello,

I got this need to. I'm changing the subnet of my switches and don't want to loose the saved configurations, performance views etc. And I don't like touching the DB...

[LindsayHill]

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@AlexisKoch wrote:

And I don't like touching the DB...

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Guess you're going to have to decide what matters more then: Keeping the old data, or getting over your fear of the DB. Working with databases isn't that big a deal. Ultimately there's nothing magic about them. 

If you have spare node licenses, you could unmanage the existing device, and add a new device with the new IP. It won't match things up, but you'll still have old data there in case you want to go back and look at it.

[AlexisKoch]

Thank you Lindsay, I followed the instructions you left there:

http://www.netopscommunity.net/forums/-/message_boards/message/61737

I've changed 1 IP in the DB. For now, everythink is OK. I'll wait a few days before doing the 80 others.