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Moving an existing Uptime Infrastructure Monitor Monitoring Station monitoring station deployment to a new system involves a number of steps to prepare for the move and complete the system migration. Before moving to a new platform, answer the questions in this article regarding your migration objectives.

Can the new platform manage the workload produced by the Uptime Infrastructure Monitor Monitoring StationUIM monitoring station?

Take a few days to determine the average workload that Uptime Infrastructure Monitor UIM places on the system that hosts your Monitoring Stationmonitoring station. Next, determine if the new system will be able to handle this additional workload (factoring in any other applications that may be running on the same platform). Also consider if the new system has sufficient disk capacity to handle the historical performance data and new data being gathered from the monitored elements.

Will the new Monitoring Station monitoring station belong to the same network space as the original system?

Determine if the new Monitoring Station monitoring station is able to resolve the hostnames or IP addresses that you have used for your Uptime Infrastructure Monitor UIM agents. If not, consider updating the hosts file on the new Monitoring Station monitoring station to ensure that you do not have a gap in performance data caused by Uptime Infrastructure Monitor UIM being unable to contact agents after being installed on the new system.

Do you need to maintain all configuration settings on the new Monitoring Stationmonitoring station?

If you do not need to migrate configuration settings to the new Monitoring Stationmonitoring station, consider performing a clean Uptime Infrastructure Monitor UIM install on the new platform.

Do you need to request a new license key for the new Monitoring Stationmonitoring station?

The license key used on your current Monitoring Station monitoring station is node locked to the HostID of the Monitoring Station monitoring station system. A new key must be generated for the new platform. To receive a new key you must find the HostID of the new Monitoring Station monitoring station, and then follow the instructions in the Moving Your License Key articlein Moving your license key.

If there is a requirement to run the new Monitoring Station monitoring station in a test environment before disabling the original Monitoring Stationmonitoring station, please contact contact uptime-support@idera.com to request a temporary test license key.

After reviewing these questions, continue with the Monitoring Station monitoring station migration process described below.

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Migrating UIM

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Before migrating the Monitoring Stationmonitoring station, you must have the following: Image Removed

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  • UIM service pack installation package for the same version that is being migrated (available from the Downloads section of the Support site).

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  • UIM installation package for the same version that is being migrated (available from the Downloads section of the Support site).

Migration Progress Checklist

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Back up your current configuration

Review Review Backing up and Recovering Uptime Infrastructure Monitor for recovering UIM for full instructions.

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monitoring station

Use the full Uptime Infrastructure Monitor UIM installation package to install a clean but same version of Uptime Infrastructure Monitor UIM on the new Monitoring Station.

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monitoring station

Log in to Uptime Infrastructure Monitor UIM on the new Monitoring Stationmonitoring station. Because it will be a fresh Uptime Infrastructure Monitor UIM install, it will ask you to set the admin password and SMTP server. These values will be reset once the configuration is copied from the old Monitoring Stationmonitoring station.

Enter the new license key when prompted.

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monitoring stations

To stop the Uptime Infrastructure Monitor services review - UIM services, see Starting (or restarting) and Stopping Uptime Infrastructure Monitor

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Move the DataStore

The Uptime Infrastructure Monitor UIM datastore contains all relevant configuration information for your Uptime Infrastructure Monitor UIM installation. To move the datastore, copy the following directory to the same location on your new Monitoring Station:
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Consider compressing the data within this directory before moving the configuration information to minimize transfer time. Also ensure that file transfers are completed in BINARY mode as datastore files may be corrupted if they are transferred in ASCII.

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Delete ib_logfile* files

If the MySQL ib_logfile* size on the old Monitoring Station monitoring station server differs from the new one, MySQL will fail to start. To avoid this issue, it is best to delete the <uptime_dir>/datastore/data/ib_logfile* files. They will be automatically recreated when the Uptime Infrastructure Monitor Data Store UIM DataStore service starts next.

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monitoring station

After the datastore directory has been moved to the new Monitoring Stationmonitoring station, start Uptime Infrastructure Monitor UIM on the new Monitoring Station review - Start ing monitoring station. For more information, see Starting (or restarting) and Stopping Uptime Infrastructure Monitor

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When the Monitoring Station monitoring station is running on the new system, ensure that all agent systems continue to return new performance data and that Uptime Infrastructure Monitor UIM is registering alerts.

If any functionality stops working after moving to the new system, please contact contact uptime-support@idera.com and provide a description of what is not working along with a Problem Report (Config > Problem Reporting).