Restoring An Adm Environment By Using A Product Support Package - VMware VCENTER APPLICATION DISCOVERY MANAGER 6.1.1 Administration Manual

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Restoring an ADM Environment by Using a Product Support Package

To restore an ADM configuration
1 Backup your ADM environment as described in "Product Support Packages" on page 34.
2 Contact VMware Customer Support to retrieve the password for extracting the product support package.
3 Follow the steps in "Restore the ADM Database" on page 36.
4 If necessary, "Restoring the Custom Discovery and Configuration Files" on page 37.
I If you are migrating to a new appliance, follow the instructions in "Migrating to a New
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Appliance" on page 45.
N In the following sections, the directory in which the product support package files are extracted is
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Restore the ADM Database
The following steps describes restoration of the ADM database in an Single‐Box and distributed deployment.
Chapter 1 describes the different ADM deployment options:
1 Log in to the Aggregator or Single‐Box appliance as user root.
N Distributed deployment only: In a distributed deployment the database or remote database is
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restored through the Aggregator.
2 Create a temporary directory:
mkdir supportpackagedir
3 Copy the support package into the temporary directory that you created in Step
4 Extract the support package into the temporary directory:
unzip support_package__version_date_and_timestamp.zip
where version_date_and_timestamp is the unique identifier of the package.
5 When prompted for the password, type the password you retrieved from VMware Customer Support.
6 After extraction completes, copy the database backup file:
supportpackagedir/supportpackage/backup.db_dump-main-db_schema_build-db_dump.gz
where db_schema_build is the database schema version and build number.
7 Place the copied file in the following directory:
/home/nlayers/Seneca/Control/bin/home/nlayers/Seneca/db_scripts/oracle
8 Type the following command to stop the engine service:
/adm_control.pl --stop engine
9 Type the following command to switch to the nlayers user:
su - nlayers
10 Change directory to:
cd /home/nlayers/Seneca/db_scripts/oracle
11 Type the following command to restore the db backup:
./db_restore.sh backup.db_dump-main-db_schema_build-db_dump.gz prod
where db_schema_build is the database schema version and build number.
N The database restore process can take up to 30 minutes.
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