Migrating the administrative workstation

The administrative workstation can be migrated from one physical system to another.

About this task

In some cases, you might want to migrate an existing administrative workstation from one system to another. For example, an existing administrative system might be reassigned. You can delegate the deployment maintenance duties to another system.

The target system must host the same operating system and major version as the original administrative system. The target system must be of the same hardware type as the existing administrative workstation. The user ID used to install the product on the existing administrative workstation must also exist on the target system with the same permissions defined.

Procedure

  1. Log on to the existing administrative system with the user ID used to install the product.
  2. Create a copy of the installation directory.  By default, this value is C:\IBM\SMP for Windows and /opt/IBM/SMP for Linux and UNIX systems. Ensure that all file permissions are preserved.
  3. Log on to the target administrative system with the same user ID that was used to install the product on the existing administrative workstation.
  4. Copy the installation files and directories to the file system of the target administrative system. You must maintain the directory structure of the original installation. For example, if the installation directory on the existing administrative system is C:\IBM\SMP, you cannot copy those files to a C:\NewAdminWS\IBM\SMP directory on the target administrative workstation.
  5. Update the deployment engine host name by running the following commands:
    Windows
    install_directory\SMP\CTG_DE\acsi\bin\de_chghostname.cmd
    Linux and UNIX
    install_directory/SMP/CTG_DE/acsi/bin/de_chghostname.sh 

Results

The administrative workstation migration is complete. Perform maintenance functions from the new administrative workstation only.


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