Process; Preliminary Procedures - VMware VCENTER APPLICATION DISCOVERY MANAGER 6.1.1 Administration Manual

Application Discovery Manager Administration Guide
Migrate or upgrade all appliances to the same ADM version in the following order:
1 Remote database (for Distributed with remote database solution)
2 Collectors (for all Distributed solutions)
3 Aggregator

Process

The migration process is as follows:
1 Record the current appliance network settings as described in "ADM Setup Procedures" on page 23.
2 Backup your data as described in "Product Support Packages" on page 34.
I The backup procedures involve copying custom ADM files. Ensure that the files maintain
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the original nLayers ownership after copying. Editing the files as root might change the ownership of the
files.
3 Backup UNIX Collectors if custom fingerprints exist.
4 Backup Windows Collector fingerprints as described in "Backing Up WinApe Migration Files" on page 46
and shutdown all old appliances.
5 Install and deploy the new virtual appliance as described in "Deploying the Virtual Appliances" on
page 18.
6 Restart the appliance and performing initial setup tasks as described in Chapter
7 Restore UNIX Collector fingerprints.
8 Restore Windows Collector fingerprints as described in "Restoring WinApe Migration Files" on page 47.

Preliminary Procedures

C Backup of existing data is essential to prevent data loss during the migration process.
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For all solutions, back up files are needed for WinApe migration to another computer as shown in table
Table 7‐1.
The following table describes the WinApe migrations files. For virtual appliance, the default location is
C:\Program Files\VMware\ADM. For physical appliance, the default location is C:\Program
Files\nLayers\InSightActiveDiscovery.
Table 7-1. WinApe Migration Files
File
\lib\java\adkbcustom.jar
Backing Up WinApe Migration Files
N You can only manually backup the WinApe migration files.
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1 Log in to the WinApe appliance.
2 Navigate to the folder where WinApe is installed.
3 Create the backup of adkbcustom.jar file present in \lib\java folder.
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