Performing the migration
The Migration Advisor Report provides the following important information:
- High-level migration plan summary.
- FootPrints version, migration version, time required, disk space estimates, and so on.
- List of detected issues that apply to your migration and issues that apply to all migrations.
- List of items that are not migrated.
- Links to support articles that explain issues and suggest mitigation.
- Step-by-step migration plan with sections for pre-migration tasks, backing up and restoring your system, post-migration tasks, and so on.
The following topics are provided:
Running the Migration Advisor Tool on Windows
- Click here to download the Migration Advisor Tool.
- Save the Migration Advisor Tool on the FootPrints 11.6.01 or later in a folder outside the FootPrints install folder.
- Extract the contents of the footprints-service-core-migration-advisor-12.x-nn.nn.zip file into this same folder and go to this folder.
Run the setup.cmd file.
- Click Next.
- Browse and go to the location where FootPrints 11.6.01 or later is installed.
For example:- C:\FootPrintsServiceCore
- D:\Footprints
- Click Next.
Note down the estimated time to run the Migration Advisor Tool. - Click Next to start the analysis of the system.
After you run the Migration Advisor Tool, a Migration Advisor Report is created at the same location where FootPrints version 11.6.x is installed in the following format:
- MigrationAdvisorReports\Analysis_yyyy-mm-dd-hh-mm.html
- C:\FootPrintsServiceCore\MigrationAdvisorReports\Analysis_2014-04-13-16-44.html
Running the Migration Advisor Tool on Linux
- Click here to download the Migration Advisor Tool.
Ensure that you have downloaded the correct Migration Advisor Tool (footprints-service-core-migration-advisor-NNbit-12.x-nn.nn.tar.gz) file, where NN is 32 or 64 for the bitness of the FootPrints 11.6.01 or later application server.- 32 bit - footprints-service-core-migration-advisor-32bit-12.x-nn.nn.tar.gz
64 bit - footprints-service-core-migration-advisor-64bit-12.x-nn.nn.tar.gz
To check your version on which your system is running, run the following command:uname -m
- If it is a 32 bit system, the output must be one of the following:
- i386
- i486
- i586
- i686
- If it is a 64 bit system, the output must be x86_64.
- Create a directory with an appropriate name and move the footprints-service-core-migration-advisor-NNbit-12.x-nn.nn.tar.gz file to it.
- Go to the command prompt and change directory to the directory that you created in step 2.
Extract the contents of the footprints-service-core-migration-advisor-NNbit-12.x-nn.nn.tar.gz file using a command.
For example, tar xzvf footprints-service-core-migration-advisor-NNbit-12.x-nn.nn.tar.gz
- Make the following files executable:
- setup.bin
- jre/bin/java
- Export the display using the command as shown below:
- export DISPLAY=:0.0
- export DISPLAY=localhost:0.0
Run the setup.bin script:
./setup.binThe Migration Advisor Tool displays information in a shell window before it displays the wizard's Welcome message. Do not close the shell window.
- Browse and go to the location where FootPrints 11.6.01 or later is installed.
- /usr/local/footprintsservicecore
- /opt/footprints
- Click Next.
Note down the estimated time to run the Migration Advisor Tool. - Click Next to start the analysis of the system.
After you run the Migration Advisor Tool, a Migration Advisor Report is created at the same location where FootPrints version 11.6.x is installed in the following format:
- MigrationAdvisorReports\Analysis_yyyy-mm-dd-hh-mm.html
- C:\FootPrintsServiceCore\MigrationAdvisorReports\Analysis_2014-04-13-16-44.htm
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