Exchange configuration data between management servers

In an environment with multiple management servers, you must configure each node on every management server that may receive the node's messages. Management servers discard messages if they originate from unknown nodes. This applies for both agent-based and server-based flexible management.

HPOM provides commands that enable you to exchange node configuration data between management servers. In addition, you can also optionally exchange the following types of configuration data:

• Policies
• Node inventories
• Instruction text
• User roles
• Tools
• Services
• Instrumentation

NOTE:
There are some restrictions on the data that you can exchange between HPOM for Windows and HPOM for UNIX. For more details, see Configuration interoperability.

To exchange configuration data, you use command line tools to first export the data to a file on one management server. You then copy the file to other management servers and import the data. There are different command line tools for working with HPOM for Windows and HPOM for UNIX management servers. The table below summarizes which command line tools you must use.

The command-line tools provide flexible options for data exchange. Therefore, you should plan how to create, maintain, and distribute configuration data between multiple management servers. For example, you could consider the following scenarios:

• Exchange all data so that every management server has the same configuration.
• Exchange subsets of data so that each management server has a specialized configuration.
• Perform all configuration tasks centrally on one management server, and then distribute the data to other management servers.
• Perform configuration tasks on all management servers, and exchange the data as necessary.

Related Topics:

• ovpmutil
• ovowconfigexchange
• ImportPolicies