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This document provides an overview of the changes made to HP Operations Smart Plug-in Upgrade Toolkit (SPI Upgrade Toolkit) version 2.02. This document also contains information about the following:
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HP Operations SPI Upgrade Toolkit helps you preserve all customizations done on policies while you upgrade a SPI to the higher version. By automating the task of merging all policy customizations to the new version of policies, the SPI Upgrade Toolkit helps you retain the modified policy settings after you upgrade the Smart Plug-in (SPI) to the higher version. This version of the SPI Upgrade Toolkit includes the following features:
SPI Name |
SPI DVD 2009.1, SPI DVD 10.01, SPI DVD 10.02 |
SPI DVD 2008.1 |
SPI DVD 2006.1 |
Smart Plug-in for Databases |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Smart Plug-in for Microsoft Exchange Server |
Yes |
Yes |
No |
Smart Plug-in for SAP |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Smart Plug-in for Web Server |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Smart Plug-in for Oracle WebLogic Server NOTE: The Smart Plug-in for Oracle WebLogic Server was formerly known as the Smart Plug-in for BEA WebLogic Server |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Smart Plug-in for IBM WebSphere Application Server |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
Note: SPI DVD 2009.1 is for HP-UX, SPI DVD 10.01 is for Linux, and SPI DVD 10.02 is for Solaris.
Installation requirements, as well as instructions for installing SPI Upgrade Toolkit, are documented in the User Guide for HP Operations Smart Plug-in Upgrade Toolkit provided in PDF (.pdf) format.
The Online Help provided with the product is context sensitive help that provides documentation for the particular feature that you are in the process of using. For more information on the product, see the HP Operations Smart Plug-in Upgrade Toolkit User Guide.
Refer to the Support Matrix (SUMA) link http://support.openview.hp.com/selfsolve/document/KM323488 for the supported HP Operations Manager, Application Servers, HP Performance Agent, and HP Performance Manager version.
For information on the archived obsolescence programs, refer to the Obsolescence Archive link http://support.openview.hp.com/encore/om_spis_2009.jsp.
This release contains the following unresolved problems and limitations. Workarounds are provided wherever applicable.
The SPI Upgrade Toolkit does not handle policy group names starting or ending with spaces. For example, "EXSPI NTTP<space>" or "<space>EXSPI NTTP".
There is no validation provided while you resolve the conflicts or choose a difference to be merged. The policies that are merged with invalid data might not get uploaded to the HPOM server.
The top-level policy group names must be the same for the merging to be possible with the SPI Upgrade Toolkit.
The SPI Upgrade Toolkit cannot handle different versions of the same policy present for a SPI. It randomly takes one of the available versions and proceeds with the merging.
The SPI Upgrade Toolkit does not support merging the localized policies.
The SPI Upgrade Toolkit does not support merging of two SPIs at the same time.
The SPI Upgrade Toolkit does not support multiple users at the same time.
If there are no differences or conflicts in the Policy group based difference report page, check if the top-level policy group names for base, customer, and factory are identical.
The SPI Upgrade Toolkit depends on the policy group to upgrade a SPI. In the HP Operations Smart Plug-in for Databases (DB SPI), all the policies for the Sybase SPI, Informix SPI, Microsoft SQL Server SPI, and Oracle SPI are present under a single policy group. Therefore, when a SPI is selected for merging, the policies for the other three SPIs appear as deleted.
When you resolve differences in the Policy differences and conflicts page, the Inserts and Deletes value will be merged by default. You cannot modify the values for these attributes.
If the policy type is changed between versions, the policies will be skipped as part of migration.
Since the monitor policy format is different between HPOM for UNIX 9.00 and HPOM for UNIX 8.x, policy comparison report shows most of the attribute data as factory insert.
If existing factory version and merged version of policies is same while uploading merged version, the opccfgupld command reports that few policies are failing to upload.
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