Migrate from ForwardToVP-based forwarding


Previous versions of HPOM for Windows use agent policies on the management server to forward messages to other management servers:

Server-based flexible management offers several advantages:

If you use ForwardToVP-based message forwarding, you can stay with that solution or manually migrate to server-based flexible management. Server-based flexible management is the recommended message forwarding solution. ForwardToVP-based message forwarding is only available for backward compatibility.

To migrate from ForwardToVP-based message forwarding to server-based flexible management

  1. Copy the content of the agent-based flexible management policy that to forwards all messages of the type ForwardToVP to other management servers. Use it to create a server-based flexible management policy.
  2. In the server-based flexible management policy, remove the SECONDARYMANAGERS section. The section is not needed, because each management server maintains an internal list of the other management servers to which it has forwarded each message. The management server forwards message operations and action responses to only the management servers in this list.
  3. In the policy, remove the ACTIONALLOWMANAGERS section. The section is not needed for server-based flexible management.
  4. In the MSGTARGETRULES section, remove the MSGTARGETRULE that forwards all messages to the source server itself.
  5. In the MSGTARGETRULES section, modify the MSGTARGETRULE that forwards messages to destination servers. Replace MSGTARGETRULECOND MSGTYPE "ForwardToVP" with the conditions (if any) from the WMI policy that creates messages with the message type ForwardToVP.
  6. The keywords ACKNONLOCALMGR, MSGCONTROLLINGMGR, and NOTIFYMGR are not supported for server-based flexible management policies. If your existing policy contains these keywords, remove them.
  7. Remove the WMI policy that creates messages with the message type ForwardToVP, so that it is no longer deployed to the agent on the management server.
  8. Remove the agent-based flexible management policy that forwards messages, so that it is no longer deployed to the agent on the management server.
  9. Remove the WMI policy that forwards ownership changes and acknowledgements.
  10. Configure any prerequisites for server-based flexible management and then deploy the new server-based flexible management policy to the management server.

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