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System maintenance, Backup:ovbackup, On the ito management server – HP UX B6941-90001 User Manual

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Chapter 10

Tuning, Troubleshooting, Security, and Maintenance

System Maintenance

System Maintenance

You perform system maintenance on both the management server and on
managed nodes. Management server maintenance is split into the
following areas:

❏ System backups

❏ Database

❏ HP OpenView platform

❏ ITO directories and files

You can configure scheduled actions to help you with routine
system-maintenance tasks. For more information on how to schedule
actions, see the HP ITO Administrator’s Guide to Online Information.

On The ITO Management Server

ITO provides the following methods for backing up data on the ITO
management server:

opc_backup

- off-line backup

ovbackup.ovpl

- automated backup

The ITO configuration is not only on the management server but also on
the managed nodes. Consequently, if the restored configuration on the
management server does not match the current configuration on a
managed node, errors relating to missing instruction text or incorrectly
assigned templates may occur. For this reason, it is recommended that
after a backup has been restored, the templates, action, command and
monitor scripts are redistributed to all managed nodes using the

force

update

option.

Data backed-up with one tool must be recovered with the backup tool’s
corresponding restore tool. For example, use

opc_recover

to restore

data backed up with

opc_backup

: similarly,

ovrestore.ovpl

must be

used to recover data saved using

ovbackup.ovpl

.

NOTE

Archive-log mode is a term used in Oracle to denote a state in which
periodic automatic saves of data are performed and any changes to data
files stored in redo log files. These redo log files are subsequently