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Migrating Tivoli Monitoring for Tivoli Storage Manager V7.1, or later to another system

You can move Tivoli® Monitoring for Tivoli Storage Manager V7.1, or later to a new system.

Procedure

  1. Back up the Tivoli Monitoring for Tivoli Storage Manager environment: Backing up Tivoli Monitoring for Tivoli Storage Manager
  2. On the new system, download and install Tivoli Monitoring for Tivoli Storage Manager V7.1, or later. The full installation also installs the monitoring agent on the system. Complete the steps in Installing Tivoli Monitoring for Tivoli Storage Manager.
    Restriction: To avoid overwriting data, do not start any monitoring agents until after you restore the WAREHOUS database.
  3. On the new system, restore the Tivoli Monitoring for Tivoli Storage Manager V6.3 data that you backed up, such as the WAREHOUS database, workspaces, and Cognos® reports: Restoring Tivoli Monitoring for Tivoli Storage Manager
  4. Reconfigure the monitoring agents by completing the steps in Creating and configuring the agent instance.

What to do next

After you move Tivoli Monitoring for Tivoli Storage Manager to the new system, you can configure the historical settings and the data source: