Dell NetWorker 19.9 Administration Guide

Moving the NMC Server

You can move an NMC Server from one host to another only if both hosts use the same operating system.

1. Connect to the NMC GUI on the target NMC Server.
2. In the NMC GUI, connect to the NetWorker Server that performed the NMC database backup.
3. On the Administration window, select Protection.
4. In the left navigation pane, select Clients.
5. Create a Client resource for the target NMC host. Create a Client resource with the Client Properties dialog box describes how to create a Client resource.
6. Edit the Client resource for the source NMC Server. On the Globals (2 of 2) tab in the Remote Access attribute specify the administrator account of the target NMC Server.
   For example, administrator@target_NMC_server

   where target_NMC_server is the hostname of the target NMC Server.

7. Stop the NMC Server service on the source NMC Server.
8. Stop the NMC Server service on the target NMC Server.
9. For Linux hosts, if you did not install NMC Server software in the default path /opt/lgtonmc, then add the NMC_install_dir/bin directory to the LD_LIBRARY_PATH environment variable.
10. Run the recoverpsm command on the recovery host:

    recoverpsm -f -s NetWorker_server -c source_NMC_server -p AES_Passphrase  staging_dir

    where:

    • NetWorker_server is the name of the NetWorker Server.
    • source_NMC_server is the name of the source NMC Server.
    • AES_Passphrase is the passphrase that was specified for the NMC database backup.
    • staging_dir is the staging directory specified during the backup of the database on the source NMC Server.
      NOTE:When you perform an NMC database backup, the backup operation performs a backup of the database from the staging directory. As a result, the save set name is name of the staging directory. Use the mminfo command on the NetWorker Server to determine the name of the staging directory.

    The NetWorker Command Reference Guide or the UNIX man pages provide a complete description of the recoverpsm command line options.

11. If the source NMC Server managed NetWorker 8.2.x and earlier servers that use LDAP authentication, then recover the LDAP configuration authority files. Use the recover command, the NetWorker User program, or the NMC Recovery wizard to recover all the files in the console_install_dir/cst directory. Recover these files to the console_install_dir/cst directory on the target NMC Server.
12. Start the NMC Server service on the target NMC Server and connect to the NMC GUI.