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Migration of CPAM Appliance to the UCS-B and C-series Platform
Migration of CPAM Appliance to the UCS-B and C-series Platform
To migrate the data from CPAM appliance to UCS, complete the following procedure:
Note 
This procedure supports only a setup running on CPAM v1.4.1.
Step 1 If installed, stop the Standby server on the CPAM Appliance.
Note For redundant HA configurations, ensure that the Active and Standby servers are stopped, that is in the Down state. Restoring a backup while either of the servers is up will result in unexpected behavior.
Note If you are upgrading or re installing the server software, the Standby server should already be in the Down state.
a. Log on to the Standby CPAM appliance.
b. Select Monitoring and then select Status.
c. In the Admin State, click Stop.
d. Verify that the Admin State is Down, as shown in Figure 1.
Figure 1 Server Admin State (Down) for the Active Server
Step 2 Stop the Active server.
Note For redundant HA configurations, ensure that both the Active and Standby servers are Down, that is in the Admin state. Restoring a backup while either of the servers are up will result in unexpected behavior.
Note If you are upgrading or re installing the server software, the Standby server should already be in the Down state.
a. Log on to the Active CPAM appliance.
b. Select Monitoring and then select Status.
c. In the Admin State, click Stop.
d. Verify that the Admin State is Down, as shown in Figure 1.
Step 3 Take backup CPAM v1.4.1 from Cisco PAM Appliance.
Note It is assumed that the user has already deployed CPAM on UCS. For more information see the Cisco Physical Access Manager Deployment Guide in http://www.cisco.com/en/US/partner/products/ps9688/prod_installation_guides_list.html
Step 4 If installed, stop the Standby Cisco UCS server.
Note For redundant HA configurations, ensure that both the Active and Standby servers are stopped, that is in the Down state. Restoring a backup while either of the servers are up will result in unexpected behavior.
Note If you are upgrading or re installing the server software, the Standby server should already be in the Down state.
a. Log on to the Standby Cisco UCS server.
b. Select Monitoring and then select Status.
c. In the Admin State, click Stop.
d. Verify that the Admin State is Down, as shown in Figure 1.
Step 5 Stop the Active server.
Note For redundant HA configurations, ensure that both the Active and Standby servers are Down, that is in the Admin state. Restoring a backup while either of the servers is up will result in unexpected behavior.
Note If you are upgrading or re installing the server software, the Standby server should already be in the Down state.
Step 6 On the Active Cisco UCS, select the Setup tab, and then select Restore, as shown in Figure 2.
Figure 2 Restore window in the Cisco PAM Server Administration Utility
Step 7 Enter and re enter the password for the backup file. This is the password entered when the backup file was created from CPAM v1.4.1 Cisco PAM Appliance.
Step 8 Click Browse to locate and select the .zip backup file. For example: bak-02102011-1141001.3.0_0.3.25.cpam-supermicro-116
Step 9 Click Restore and wait for the restore process to complete.
Step 10 Wait for the server to automatically restart.
•A pop-up message appears informing you that the Web administrator utility is restarting.
•If the Cisco PAM Server Administration utility disconnects, a browser error message is displayed. Wait approximately five minutes for the server to restart, and then refresh your browser to log in again.
Note All installed licenses on the Cisco PAM Appliance will be inherited during the above migration process.
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