15.4 Migrating Alarm Dispositions from Earlier Version Database to ZENworks 7 with SP1 Alarm Management Rules

You can use the mmsdbmigrate command that is available on the Site Server to migrate the Alarms and Alarm Dispositions from an earlier database to the upgraded database or empty database. After you have completed installing or upgrading ZENworks 7 Server Management with SP1, you must run this tool to automatically convert the dispositions to rules and optionally migrate alarms (in case of an empty database) to the current database.

IMPORTANT:Make sure that Management and Monitoring Services is upgraded to ZENworks 7 Server Management with SP1 and it is run at least one time before you migrate.

The following steps describe the process of migrating existing dispositions to rules on an upgraded database:

  1. If the Management and Monitoring Services is running on the Site Server, stop all components and close the Management and Monitoring Services database.

    To stop the Management and Monitoring Services components, enter the following command on NetWare server console:

    stopmms -n

  2. If you have not made a backup copy of the database, make a copy of the \db directory as \olddb.

  3. Start the database by entering the following command on the NetWare server console:

    mgmtdbs

  4. Edit the line sys:\zenworks\mms\olddb\mw.db as contained in mms_installed_directory\mwserver\bin\mmsdbmigrate.ncf to be the absolute path of mw.db in your environment.

  5. Run the following command from the command line:

    mmsdbmigrate ALARMDISP

You can see the progress of Alarm Disposition migration in a new screen.