Migrating Performance Center

Products

• CA Infrastructure Management
• CA Performance Management - Usage and Administration
• DX NetOps

Issue/Introduction

What steps do we need to do to migrate Performance Center on a Red Hat 7.x system?

Environment

Release : 20.2

Component : IM Reporting / Admin / Configuration

Cause

Guide appears to have redundant steps

Resolution

Follow this guide, but replace the section labeled "Copy the Files from the Existing System" with the following section

https://techdocs.broadcom.com/us/en/ca-enterprise-software/it-operations-management/dx-netops/20-2/Performance-Monitoring-with-DX-Performance-Management/administrating/performance-center-administration/migrate-performance-center.html

Copy the Files from the Existing System

Follow these steps:

1. Log in to the original 

NetOps Portal

 host.

2. Stop the NetOps Portal services on the original system:

service caperfcenter_console stop
service caperfcenter_devicemanager stop
service caperfcenter_eventmanager stop
service caperfcenter_sso stop

3. Stop the mysql service on the original system

     service mysql stop

4. Package the files in the installation directory

          cd /opt tar czf PC.tgz ./CA

Note:The following path is the default installation directory: 

/opt/CA

5. Copy the files to the new NetOps Portal host

           scp /opt/PC.tgz <new_PC_host>:/opt

6. Copy the registry file that stores the installation and version information:

            scp /var/.com.zerog.registry.xml <new_PC_host>:/var

     7.Copy the MySQL startup script:

             scp /etc/init.d/mysql <new_PC_host>:/etc/init.d/mysql

8. Copy the MySQL configuration file:

            scp /etc/my.cnf <new_PC_host>:/etc/