Solaris Management Server Move Using upgrade_import Problems - HELP

[Souly]

Hi,
Would like some advice on the following please.

Currently we have FW NG R55 management server running on a solaris server.
We want to move to new hardware/new ip/solaris 10/FW NGX 6.1.

We have the server running with solaris 10 installed and ready.

We have tried the following but with no success:

Ran upgrade_export on the current management server.
Installed NGX 6.1 on the new server. Could connect fine etc with blank config. Ran upgrade_import on the new server and imported the old config, import ran fine. At first we could connect to the management server on its new IP, and could see all the objects rules etc, then disconnected.
Now we can't (I'm guessing this is because the object doesn't exist in the old db, but not sure why we could connect the first time!!).

I've uninstalled CP products and reinstalled using the option during the install using upgrade_export file and that failed!!

1) What we would like to do is migrate/upgrade the old config onto the new server BUT the new server has a different hostname and IP? Is this possible with upgrade_export?

2) If not could someone suggest how we would best achieve this without having to manually create every object/policy? would cp_merge help?

3) would it be possible to use dbedit to create the new management server in the db so we could connect? If so some pointers would be good?

Any help would be appreciated.

Many Thanks

Souly

[chillyjim]

This might be of help

Edit the objects_5_0.C file and search for the original IP address of the management server and change it to the new IP address. Make sure that you are changing the IP address for the correct object. We suggest not using notepad or wordpad to make this change as they tend to mangle the file. Use the guiDBEdit utility, VI(M), or UltraEdit to make this change.

[Souly]

Hi Chilly,
I did try that but to no avail.
I've answered my own question though this afternoon.
Got it all working using cp_merge and fwm dbexport/import.
Had to edit a couple of th policies using vi but all seems to be working fine now.

Thanks for your advice anyway :)

Cheers