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Installing Management Center for Cisco Security Agents 5.2
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Chapter 3 Installing the Management Center for Cisco Security Agents
Accessing Management Center for Cisco Security Agents
Step 1 Install the Management Center for Cisco Security Agents V5.2. See previous
sections for instructions.
• If you’re installing CSA MC V5.2 on the same machine running CSA MC
V5.1, an xml file containing V5.1 configuration items and several .dat files
containing host information are automatically generated by the installation
and ready for importing once the install is complete.
• If you’re installing CSA MC V5.2 on a different machine from the system
running V5.x or V4.x, after installing V5.2, you must copy and manually run
an executable file on the V5.x or V4.x machine to create the xml and dat files
needed for importing V5.x or V4.x configurations and host information to
V5.2.
Step 2 If you have installed V5.2 on the same machine as V5.1, you can skip to the end
of Step 6. Otherwise, once you’ve installed CSA MC V5.2 and rebooted the
system, navigate to the CSCOpx\CSAMC52\migration directory. Copy the
appropriate file (named
prepare_<version>_migration.exe depending on
the version you’re migrating from, for example
prepare_50_migration.exe)
to your V5.x or V4.x system. (You can copy it to any place on the system.)
Step 3 On your V5.x or V4.x system, disable agent security and run the
prepare_<version>_migration.exe file that you copied from the V5.2
system. (You must disable security in order to run the executable file and create
the import xml data.) This launches a command prompt which displays the
progress of the migration.
Step 4 When the prepare_<version>_migration.exe file is finished, on the V5.x or
V4.x system, navigate to the Cisco
Systems\CSAMC\CSAMC51\migration\export or
CSCOpx\CSAMC50\migration\export directory (again, directory name depends
on the version you’re migrating from) and locate several newly created files. Your
configuration data is now in a file named
migration_data_export.xml. Your
host data (hosts and distinct host groupings) are now in several files, depending
on how many distinct host groupings existed, named
migration_host_data<number>.dat.
Using the data that is now wrapped up in these files allows you to import your
existing policy configurations and your current host groupings, thereby
preserving the policy tuning and host group configurations for your new V5.2
installation.
