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Importing Data From a Reference NetMRI Instance

Owned by Viktoryia Varapayeva (Deactivated)
Nov 05, 2021
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The appliance designated as a Controller can import a library of scripts, custom reports, custom jobs, policies, and user account data from an existing NetMRI appliance. The NetMRI appliance from which you are importing does not become the Controller itself.

To import data:

  1. Choose the NetMRI instance as a reference system from which data will be copied. Only information from the reference NetMRI can be imported into the Operations Center. When adding multiple NetMRI instances to an Operations Center environment, the scripts, policies, and settings may differ between NetMRI instances. Therefore, any of the deltas you want imported into the Operations Center must either be manually added to the reference NetMRI, or imported into the Operations Center after the reference NetMRI is restored on the Operations Center.

2. Configure the Controller:

    1. Log in to the administrative shell on the Operations Center Controller.
    2. At the command prompt, enter the configure tunserver command.
    3. When prompted to Enter the reference system serial number or RETURN to skip, enter the serial number of the NetMRI reference system and then press Enter.
    4. When prompted: Use these settings?, enter y.
    5. When prompted to restart the Controller, enter y. The complete package of scripts, policies, and user data is downloaded by the Operations Center. You install the data in the following step.

3. Register the reference system with the Controller:

    1. Log in to the administrative shell on the reference system.
    2. At the command prompt, enter the register command.
    3. When prompted to Register this system?, enter y.
    4. You are prompted to run restore-settings on the master server. Continue in step 4.

4. Define restore settings on the Controller. This installs the uploaded reference data.

    1. If needed, log in to the administrative shell on the Controller.
    2. At the command prompt, enter the restore-settings command.
    3. At the Continue with import? prompt, enter y. (This installs the reference data on the Controller.)
    4. When prompted to restart the Controller, enter y.

5. Re-register the reference unit with the Controller.

    1. If needed, log in to the administrative shell on the reference system.
    2. At the command prompt, enter the register command.
    3. When prompted to Register this system?, enter y. The appliance restarts. After restarting, the instance is a collector in the Operations Center system.

As part of the registration process, the admin password on each collector synchronizes with the password on the Operations Center Controller. After the registration is completed, the admin password for the collector may be different than the password you initially used to log in to the administrative shell on that instance.

After registration, the NetMRI UI is not available on the reference NetMRI unit. All access to the unit takes place through the Controller.