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Connecting the Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server on Windows to a different monitoring server
When reconfiguring the portal server on Windows for a different Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server, a pop-up window is displayed asking if a snapshot of the current Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server data should first be taken.
The default response is Yes (see Figure 1).
Figure 1. Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server snapshot request screen
When reconfiguring the portal server to communicate with a Hot Standby monitoring server, the correct response is No, as the same portal server data should be used for both the primary monitoring server and the secondary monitoring server. See the IBM Tivoli Monitoring High Availability Guide for Distributed Systems.
When Yes is selected, a snapshot of the portal server data is taken via the migrate-export process. The data is saved in a file named saveexport.sql and is placed in %CANDLE_HOME%\CNPS\CMS\hostname:port, where hostname:port is the current monitoring server's hostname and connection port number.
When this process completes, the verification screen shown in Figure 2 is displayed.
Figure 2. Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server snapshot verification screen
If no existing snapshot can be found for the monitoring server that is being switched to, a new set of portal server data is created, which means all existing customizations will not be included. To restore these for use with the new monitoring server (if needed), invoke the migrate-import process using as input the saveexport.sql file created during the previous snapshot request.
When reconfiguring the Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server to switch back to the previous Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server, answering Yes causes the previous snapshot to be automatically loaded, thus restoring your prior customizations.
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Additional Tivoli Enterprise Portal configurations