Rebuilding server with SIM 5.0 on it. How to save config?

[Matt Shulman]

Hi,

We are rebuilding our server that has SIM 5.0 on it. What do we need to do to backup the configuration and settings? And after a rebuild, what is the process for restoring this info?

Thanks

[Chris Martin_12]

This past weekend, I had to re-install HPSIM 5.0. I lost all my tasks that I use for sending alert pages to phones. The discovery inclusion/exlusion settings were also lost.

I would like to know if a Best Practices and /or Recovery document exists somewhere that I could use if I should lose my server needs a rebuild in the future.

[Gene Nordahl]

I also rebuilt my server this last weekend. I had good luck using the command line tools (mxstm, mxnode, mxtask, mxusers,etc). They can export out pretty much everything into a XML format. You can then use those XML files to import all your configurations back in after the rebuild.

I imported them in the following order:
MXSTM (System types)
MXNODE (Devices)
MXUSER (users)
MXQUERY (Collections)
MXTASKS (custom tasks)
MXNGROUP (system groups)
MXTOOLBOX (toolboxes)
MXAUTH (Authorizations)

Issues:
If something already exists the import will often error out (bit me on queries and users), so you may need to edit the XML.

On the Query import you will lose private collections. Also all the other collections will just be under Shared, so you may have some cleanup to do afterwards.

The MXTask export is by task name, so you will have a separete XML file for each task.

Search the help documentation for the command line tools to find out the appropriate switches to use.

Hope this helps.
Gene