Migrating Existing Sites - CheckMK Rail2 Mark I Manual

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3.1 Migrating existing sites

It is a common case to migrate existing sites from other Linux systems to a Check_MK appliance. The
Check_MK appliance offers a migration dialog which is performing the migration for you.
The following requirements need to be met:
• You need to have a network connection between the source system and your device.
• The Check_MK version of the source site needs to be installed on your device (Architecture changes
from 32-bit to 64-bit are possible).
• The source site needs to be stopped during migration.
Open the main menu of the web interface and click on the menu item Instance Administration. Then
click on the button Migrate Site.
In this dialogue, you first need to configure the host address (host name, DNS name, IP address) the
source system, which you want to migrate the site from. Now you need to enter the site ID of the site
you want to be migrated.
The migration of the site is done via SSH. To get access to the source site, you need to provide the
credentials of a user which is able to connect to the source system and access all files of the source site.
You can use the root user of the source system or, if you have configured a password for the site user,
you can use the site user credentials.
Optionally you can choose to let the migration create the site with a new site ID on your device.
Additionally you have the option to skip the performance data (measurements, graphs) and historic
monitoring data during migration. This can be useful if you don't need an exact copy of the source site
and only want to copy it e.g. for testing purposes.
After filling the dialogue and confirming it by clicking the start button. The following dialogue will show
you the progress of the migration.
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