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Migrate Secondary Server to another Primary and convert Secondary to Client

  • 1.  Migrate Secondary Server to another Primary and convert Secondary to Client

    Posted Jan 30, 2008 04:40 AM
    I have inherited the following disaster
    1 System Center 6 Server with 1 Primary, 60 Secondary Servers (all with no clients except themselves) and 60 Clients (all Secondaries and Client SAV 10) - 9.x support enabled on the Primary
    1 System Center 6 Server with 1 Primary, 25 Secondary Servers (all with no clients except themselves)and 0 (Zero) Clients (all Secondaries SAV 9) - 9.x support enabled on the Primary
     
    2 questions
    Is there any way to convert a secondary server to be a client only without having to reinstall the server/client?
    Is there any way of migrating the 25 secondaries to the other primary without reinstalling so I can decommision the second System Center server?
     
    Up until me taking over there were no clients, everything was a primary or secondary for some reason so as you can see due to new servers etc we have at least fixed 60 of them!


  • 2.  RE: Migrate Secondary Server to another Primary and convert Secondary to Client

    Posted Nov 05, 2008 06:24 PM

    Pieman,

    1. no, you have to uninstall the server software and reinstall just the client to make the machine a client.

    2. You can just drag and drop secondary servers onto the new primary within the console to get them to connect to that machine in future. Easy, worked for me :)

     

    Cheers