HP Operations Manager for Windows

Heterogeneous configuration synchronization


Configuration information, including policies or templates and services, can be moved from an HPOM for Windows management server to an HPOM for UNIX management server and vice versa. The instructions below explain the general procedure. Refer to the documentation of both products for the syntax of the download and upload tools.
Note NOTE:
Some types of policies and templates cannot be used on other platforms. See Configuration interoperability for more details.

To move node configuration from HPOM for UNIX to HPOM for Windows

  1. Download the HPOM for UNIX templates to a download config package with the command opccfgdwn. (See the HPOM for UNIX Administrators Reference for more information).
  2. Copy the config download package to the HPOM for Windows management server.
  3. Upload the config download package with the command-line tool ovowconfigexchange.

To move all other template information from HPOM for UNIX to HPOM for Windows

  1. Download the HPOM for UNIX templates to a download config package with the command opccfgdwn. (See the HPOM for UNIX Administrators Reference for more information.)
  2. Copy the config download package to the HPOM for Windows management server.
  3. Upload the config download package with the command line tool ImportPolicies
  4. Customize the policies as required and deploy to the appropriate nodes.

To move node configuration and instruction texts from HPOM for Windows to HPOM for UNIX

This procedure applies only to node configuration and instruction texts.
  1. Export the HPOM for Windows configuration to HPOM for UNIX templates using the HPOM for Windows command ovowconfigexchange.
  2. Copy the files from the HPOM for Windows management server to the HPOM for UNIX management server using a method of your choice.
  3. Upload the templates to HPOM for UNIX using opccfgupld or opctempl. (See the HPOM for UNIX Administrators Reference for more information.)
  4. Additional steps may be necessary. See the ovowconfigexchange help topic.

To move all other configuration information from HPOM for Windows to HPOM for UNIX

  1. Export the HPOM for Windows configuration to HPOM for UNIX templates using the HPOM for Windows command ovpmutil. Do not mix policies with other configuration information. If you want to move templates and other configuration information, create two structured storage files.
  2. For downloaded policies, convert the downloaded structured storage file to an ASCII file with the command ovpmutil PCV/x.
  3. Copy the file from the HPOM for Windows management server to the HPOM for UNIX management server using the method you prefer.
    Note NOTE:
    In the Japanese environment, convert the file from uti-8 to Shift-JIS..
  4. Upload the policy information to the HPOM for UNIX management server database with the command line tool opctempl. An XML service file can be used without further conversion.
  5. If you uploaded templates, customize them as required and deploy to the appropriate nodes.

Using the ovowconfigexchange command

With the release of HPOM for Windows 7.50, you can use the ovowconfigexchange tool to exchange a subset of configuration data between cross-platform HP Operations management servers (to support message forwarding), in most cases between HPOM for Windows and HPOM for UNIX servers in either direction.

This tool operates only on the HPOM for Windows platform. Its counterparts on HPOM for UNIX are opccfgupld/opccfgdwn and opctempl tools. It can upload data from HPOM for UNIX or download local configuration to files, formatted for upload to HPOM for UNIX. Files must be manually copied between the systems. See ovowconfigexchange for further details.