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If you are migrating data installation that already contains some of the same asset management
data, you might see migration errors or fail in the migration process. See
and Their Uniqueness" on page 41
For better migration performance, it is strongly recommended that you purge the ZENworks
Asset Management 7.5 database before you begin. For details, see
Performance Guidelines," on page

1.2 Overview

The migration utility is used to migrate inventory data, which is defined by your ZENworks Asset
Management 7.5 collection domains, and asset management data. This data includes the following:
Inventory data
Devices (including deleted devices, if desired. See
Data," on page
Device history
Local software products
Hardware/software components
Administrator-defined fields (known as user-defined fields in ZENworks Asset
Management 7.5)
Custom reports
Asset management data
Asset management usage data
Asset management custom reports
Asset management administrator-defined fields (known as user-defined fields in
ZENworks Asset Management 7.5)
Catalog products
Discovered products
Purchase records
Licensed products
Software collections
Contracts and date notifications
Documents
Network devices and contract-network relationships are not migrated. Contract-to-network-device
relationships can be reestablished after a network discovery process is run within ZENworks 10
Asset Management.
Inventory data can be migrated by individual device or as a group. Asset management data is
migrated as a group.
10 Novell ZENworks 10 Asset Management Migration Guide
for more information.
27.
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"ZENworks Objects
Section 1.6.8, "Migration
Section 1.6.1, "Migrating Inventory