G DATA Business Solutions: Moving G DATA Management Server to another computer

This guide shows you how to move the ManagementServer to another computer.

1

Open the services' administration (services.msc) and stop the services G DATA Management Server and SQL Server (Instanzname). For example SQL Server (GDATA2014).

2

From the Microsoft SQL Server program directory, save the two necessary database files DatabaseName.mdf and DatabaseName.ldf.

Example 
C:\Program files (x86)\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL12.GDATA2014\MSSQL\DATA die Dateien GDATA_AntiVirus_MMS_[Timestamp].mdf sowie GDATA_AntiVirus_MMS_[Timestamp].ldf

C:\Program files (x86)\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL12.GDATA2014\MSSQL\DATA die Dateien GDATA_AntiVirus_MMS_[Timestamp].mdf sowie GDATA_AntiVirus_MMS_[Timestamp].mdf

3

Install G DATA Management Server on the newly designated server. Here it is possible to use the same or a newer version of G DATA Management Server.

Moving to an older version is not possible.

4

Stop the services described in step 1 now also on the new server to be able to migrate the database again.

5

Rename the files backed up from the old server to match the newly created files on the new server. Especially the [Timestamp] has to be taken into account, because it always differs even if the database has the same name.

6

Navigate to the Data directory of the SQL Server - e.g.

C:\Program files (x86)\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL12.GDATA2014\MSSQL\DATA

and insert here the files saved in step 2 and renamed in step 5. In doing so, you overwrite the existing files.

7

Restart the services that were deactivated in step 4. G DATA Management Server now automatically integrates the migrated database.

8

Open the command prompt (right-click > Run as administrator) and navigate to the directory

C:\Program Files (x86)\G Data\G DATA AntiVirus ManagementServer

9

Execute the command:

GData.Business.Server.Cli.exe setmmshostname

and restart the G DATA Management Server service after successfully executing the command.

10

If the new server has a different name than the previous server, the already installed G DATA Security Clients must be changed to the new server name via Group Policy.
To do this, the Server value of the

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\WOW6432Node\G DATA\AVKClient

key must be changed to the name of the new server.

For help on how to migrate clients via group policy, see our Guide to G DATA Security Client Migration via GPO.