Tips for Migrating GroupWise and ZENworks for Servers with the Migration Wizard

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By Glen Davis

Digg This - Slashdot This Posted: 22 Apr 2004

Procedures for Migrating ZENworks for Servers and GroupWise with the Novell NetWare Migration Wizard.

When using the Migration Wizard 6.5 or 7.1 to migrate a Server from an old piece of hardware to a new piece of hardware, it requires the reinstallation\reconfiguration of products after the migration has completed.

Here are some steps to help get ZENworks for Servers and GroupWise running on the new server after the migration. I realize many will have different environments and configurations but hopefully this can help as a basic steps of what to do to get these applications running after the migration.

GroupWise Migration:

In this particular example a NetWare 5.1 server was being migrated to NetWare 6.0. This was tested with a 5.1 server running GroupWise 6 with all the agents, MTA, etc., running on the same source server, migrating to a NetWare 6 server.

1. Close all running GroupWise processes on the source server, before starting the migration.



2. Run the migration as normal, make sure to backup the entire SYS volume, when prompted during Volume copy stage. This will make sure we get the GroupWise files from the source copied to sys:sys.mig\system on the destination.



3. After the migration is complete copy the following from Sys:sys.mig\system\ to Sys:system:
   

   GRPWISE.NCF
   GWENN3.NLM
   GWIA.CFG
   GWIA.NCF
   GWIA.NLM
   GWIA.XLM
   GWIA1BR.FIR
   GWIA1DE.FIR
   GWIA1ES.FIR
   GWIA1FR.FIR
   GWIA1US.FIR
   GWPOA1US.FIL
   GWPOA.HLP
   GWPOA.NLM
   GWPOA.XLM
   
   GWTMSTMP.NLM
   GWTSA.NCF
   GWTSA.NLM
   GWTSA.XLM
   GWTSAUS.FIL
   GWIACHK.NLM
   GWMTA.NLM
   GWMTA.XLM
   GWMTA1US.FIL
   GWMTA1US.HLP
   GWNETCFG.CHK
   GWNETCFG.CHK
   *.POA
   *.MTA
   XIS10.NOM
   XGAB10.NLM
   XGABAS10.NLM
   XGMSG10.NLM
   XGDM10.NLM
   XGCAL10.NLM




4. Now launch GroupWise on the new NetWare 6 server.
   Note: If running GroupWise WebAccess, the WebAccess piece will need to be reinstalled.

ZENworks Migration

This was tested migrating a server to NetWare 6.5.

1. Stop the ZENworks Database before starting the migration
2. Drag and Drop sys:zenworks from source to destination (to Sys:zenworks)in the Migration Wizard. Drag and drop other data as necessary and then complete the file copy portion of the migration.
3. Edit Configuration files (step 2 of the migration)On destination edit Autoexec.ncf and add ZFS.ncf
4. Edit destination server's Hosts, Hostname, and Autoexec.ncf - make sure Ipaddress, Servername and DNS name on destination will change to that of the source.
5. Copy sys:system\mgmtdbs.ncf to sys:system (if system is dropped in sys.mig, it can be copied from sys.mig to sys:system after the migration)
6. After the migration has completed all four steps then run ZFSMIG.nlm

Related Links:

• Download NetWare Migration Wizard 7.1 here
• NetWare Migration Wizard 7.1 documentation
• NetWare Migration Wizard 6.5 documentation

For more tips see:

• Tips for Administrators
• Tips for End Users

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