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Migrating monitoring policies


Use the bhompolicymigrator tool to migrate policies to BMC Helix Operations Management. You can migrate policies from the following applications:

  • TrueSight Operations Management to BMC Helix Operations Management
  • One tenant of BMC Helix Operations Management to another
  • BMC Helix Operations Management SaaS to BMC Helix Operations Management on-premises
  • BMC Helix Operations Management on-premises to BMC Helix Operations Management SaaS

Monitoring policies in TrueSight Operations Management are migrated to BMC Helix Operations Management as monitor or alarm policies. The following table displays details about monitoring policies in TrueSight Operations Management and BMC Helix Operations Management:


To migrate policies between BMC Helix Operations Management tenants

To migrate policies within two tenants in BMC Helix Operations Management, export the data from one BMC Helix Operations Management tenant in a file and import it to the second tenant. Use this method to migrate the following data:

  • Monitor, alarm, and blackout policies in BMC Helix Operations Management
  • Event policies in BMC Helix Operations Management
  • Monitoring groups in BMC Helix Operations Management


To migrate policies with passwords

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If the policies that you want to migrate contain passwords, perform one of the following steps for the migration:

  • Migrate the policies without the password details and add the password manually in BMC Helix Operations Management after the migration.
  • Automatically migrate passwords with policies by performing the following steps:
    • For TrueSight Operations Management to BMC Helix Operations Management migration
      1. Obtain the encryption key for the BMC Helix Operations Management and BMC Helix Operations Management tenants.
      2. Use the encryption keys during the migration.
    • For BMC Helix Operations Management  to BMC Helix Operations Management migration:
      1. Obtain the encryption key for both tenants.
      2. Use the encryption keys during the migration.
    • For BMC Helix Operations Management SaaS to BMC Helix Operations Management on-premises:
      1. Obtain the encryption key for both tenants.
      2. Use the encryption keys during the migration.

 

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