Moving a Host On-Demand server installation to a new server

About this task

You can move your Host On-Demand server configuration from one server to another. If you install Host On-Demand in a test environment before deploying to your production environment, complete the following steps to migrate Host On-Demand from one server to another (or from one HFS to a different HFS in a z/OS environment). For example, if you wanted to move your Host On-Demand server configuration from server1 to server2, you must:

Procedure

  1. Install Host On-Demand on server2. You must install the same release level of Host On-Demand on server2 that is installed on server1. If server2 is using a Web server that is not recognized by the Host On-Demand installation program, you must manually configure the Web server for Host On-Demand. Refer to IBM Rational HOD v14 Planning, Installing and Configuring Host On-Demand in the information center for more information.
  2. Stop the Host On-Demand Service Manager on server2.
  3. Replace the necessary files and directories on server2 with those from server1. This step overwrites any configuration changes made to Host On-Demand on server2 since step 1.
  4. To move user and group configuration information, copy the ../hostondemand/private directory on server1 to the ../hostondemand/private directory on server2.
  5. Copy all files and directories you have created with the Deployment Wizard from their server1 location to server2. For example, if you created test.HTML using the Deployment Wizard, copy test.HTML and Autotest.HTML in the publish directory from server1 to server2. Also, copy the test directory in \HODData in the publish directory from server1 to server2.
  6. Start the Host On-Demand Service Manager on server2.
    Note:
    If your current environment is not z/OS, and you want to move to a z/OS environment, this migration requires some additional steps. You can copy the private directory and CustomizeCAs.p12 file over to the new server directly. For customized HTML files, create output.zip files with the Deployment Wizard and deploy to the z/OS server using the DWunzip-S390 utility. The DWunzip will extract the files in the correct location with the correct name and permissions.