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MnT node restore question

Ping Zhou — Thu, 10 Aug 2017 20:30:05 GMT

Cisco Identity Services Engine Administrator Guide, Release 2.1 - Backup and Restore Operations [Cisco Identity Service…

Restore a Monitoring Backup with a Monitoring Persona

You can restore a Monitoring backup in a distributed environment with only Monitoring persona.

Before You Begin

Purge the old monitoring data.
Schedule a backup or perform an on-demand backup.

Step 1

Prepare to deregister the node to be restored by assigning the Monitoring persona to another node in the deployment.

A deployment must have at least one functioning Monitoring node.

Step 2

Deregister the node to be restored.

Note	Wait until the deregistration is complete before proceeding with the restore. The node must be in a standalone state before you can continue with the restore.

Step 3

Restore the Monitoring backup to the newly deregistered node.

Step 4

Step 5

Promote the newly restored and registered node as the PAN."

for Step 5, is it supposed to be primary MnT, not PAN? for a fully distributed deployment, each node has its own persona

Re: MnT node restore question

hslai — Sat, 12 Aug 2017 02:41:11 GMT

Yeah. I agree with you. It looks like an error due to copy-and-paste from the previous section.

Besides, we should be able to restore OPS backups directly to the active M&T node.

BTW, you may use the Feedback link on the page to provide the inputs directly to our doc team.

Re: MnT node restore question

Ping Zhou — Sat, 12 Aug 2017 21:12:46 GMT

Got it thanks.

and a follow up question... if directly restor to active MnT, the restored Operational data get appended to the Active MnT current data or is going to be overwritten. I believe it's going to be overwritten by this restore. tks.

Re: MnT node restore question

hslai — Sat, 12 Aug 2017 21:18:02 GMT

Yes, you are correct that the restore will overwrite the existing data.