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  • 1.  How to move Hyperic HQ Server to a new server location

    Posted May 29, 2012 01:35 AM

    Hi folks,

    I am trying to transfer my Hyperic HQ 4.4 Server installation from one server to another.  Does anyone know what is the easiest/best way to do this?

    I have at present got Hyperic installed on a vmware virtual server for evaluation and testing, and now I want to put it onto its own dedicated server.  I have Hyperic installed on a Ubuntu 11.10 virtual server and want to transfer it to a different Ubuntu 11.10 dedicated server on a different network.

    It is currently installed under it's own directory hyperic/server-4.4.0/ and it is running on the default Postgres database maintained under hyperic/server-4.4.0/hqdb/data. 

    I am thinking that I could just copy the whole directory, but then maybe settings will be misaligned, IP addresses will be wrong.  And how do I reconfigure the Hyperic client agents?

    Thanks for any assistance!



  • 2.  RE: How to move Hyperic HQ Server to a new server location

    Posted Jun 11, 2012 11:29 PM

    Welcome, Kallon. I hope this is a sign your evaluation is going well. You may want to try searching some of the historical threads on this forum - there are a couple answers already out there.

    http://communities.vmware.com/message/1941012

    http://communities.vmware.com/thread/348119

    Essentially though, you can move it by shutting the whole server down and moving the complete directory over. Your database will need to be reattached (assuming that you are moving to an external one for production as recommended).

    Best of luck,

    -Stacey



  • 3.  RE: How to move Hyperic HQ Server to a new server location

    Posted Jun 12, 2012 11:23 PM

    Hi Stacy,

    Thanks for that, it is really helpful.

    Just a quick question, is it possible for Hyperic HQ to use a standalone PostgresSQL of version 9.1?

    I can't find an answer to this anywhere, but I can see that Hyperic's built-in PostgreSQL version is 8.X. I installed the PostgreSQL version 9.1 on my test server Ubuntu 11.10 from the official Ubuntu repository, but am having a problem installing a copy of Hyperic HQ 4.4 to use this standalone PostgreSQL.

    When running the Hyperic install script setup.sh, I get this error:

    Enter the JDBC connection URL for the PostgreSQL database :

    Enter the username to use to connect to the database:

    admin

    Enter the password to use to connect to the database.:

    (again):