Solution Manager Migration

[Gustavo_Goicochea]

Hi people, we are going to migrate our existing SolMan on a virtual Windows with SQL Server DB to an AIX with DB2 physical server.

But the question we need to ask you is about if there is some recommendation (from your experience) about what things we need to consider at that moment regarding Monitoring, SLD, CHARM, Service Desk, etc.

Whats your experience about that kind of migration, how traumatic they result?

thanks & regards

Gustavo

[Raquel_PereiradaCunha]

Hi Gustavo,

I had some experience in a Solution Manager migration from Linux Red-Hat 5.0 with DB Oracle 10 Unicode to Windows 2003 with DB Oracle 10 Unicode. I was responsible for the ChaRM and Service Desk part, so I cannot answer how complicated it was in other terms, and we didn't change the Database. I had to change basically the hostname and IP address everywhere it needed to have the new server connecting to the satellite systems, and vice-versa. As the database was the same, and everything run smoothly, nothing was lost regarding CRM configurations or maintenance cycles or CRM documents. But of course STMS was reconfigured since the domain controller in a 4.6C was the SolMan system and the server has been changed.

Be sure that your system has the info updated at SAP Marketplace, SLD, SMSY and RZ10 (hostname, IP, fully qualified hostname).

If I remember something else, I let you know.

Regards,

Raquel