6.6 Moving the Primary Administration Console to New Hardware

If you do not have any secondary consoles:

  1. Perform a backup. For instructions, see Section 2.2, Backing Up the Access Manager Configuration.

  2. Install the Administration Console on the new hardware, using the same DNS name and IP address.

  3. Restore the configuration. For instructions, see Section 2.3, Restoring an Administration Console Configuration.

If you have secondary consoles, you need to re-create the replica ring. When you install secondary consoles, they are added to the replica ring of the configuration datastore. The Access Manager backup script does not back up the replica ring information. It backs up only the Access Manager configuration information. The following instructions explain how you can re-create the replica ring when you install the primary Administration Console on new hardware.

  1. Perform a backup. For instructions, see Section 2.2, Backing Up the Access Manager Configuration.

  2. Down any secondary consoles.

  3. Install the Administration Console on the new hardware, using the same DNS name and IP address.

  4. Restore the configuration. For instructions, see Section 2.3, Restoring an Administration Console Configuration.

  5. Remove any secondary consoles from the configuration:

    1. In the Administration Console, click Auditing > Troubleshooting.

    2. In the Other Known Device Manager Servers section, use the Remove button to remove any secondary consoles.

  6. Uninstall the secondary consoles. For instructions, see Uninstalling the Administration Console in the Novell Access Manager 3.1 SP4 Installation Guide.

  7. Reinstall the secondary consoles as secondary consoles to the new primary console.

NOTE: Taking the backup of the Administration Console configuration on one platform such as Linux and restoring it to another platform such as on Windows or vice versa is not supported.