33.1.4 Moving the Primary Administration Console to a New Hardware

If you do not have any secondary consoles:

  1. Perform a backup. For instructions, see Backing Up the Access Manager Configuration.

  2. Install Administration Console on the new hardware using the same DNS name and IP address.

  3. Restore the configuration. For instructions, see Restoring the Access Manager Configuration.

For secondary consoles, re-create the replica ring. When you install secondary consoles, these are added to the replica ring of the configuration datastore. The Access Manager backup script does not back up the replica ring information. It backs up only the Access Manager configuration information.

Perform the following steps to recreate the replica ring when you install the primary Administration Console on new hardware:

  1. Perform a backup. For instructions, see Backing Up the Access Manager Configuration.

  2. Down any secondary consoles.

  3. Install Administration Console on the new hardware using the same DNS name and IP address that is used for the existing Primary Console.

  4. Restore the configuration. For instructions, see Restoring the Access Manager Configuration.

  5. Remove any secondary consoles from the configuration:

    1. In Administration Console Dashboard, click Troubleshooting.

    2. In the Other Known Device Manager Servers section, click Remove to remove any secondary consoles.

  6. Uninstall the secondary consoles. For instructions, see Uninstalling Administration Console in the NetIQ Access Manager 5.0 Installation and Upgrade Guide.

  7. Reinstall the secondary consoles as secondary consoles to the new primary console.