# OpManager Failover Migration

**Steps to migrate the Primary and Secondary setups to new servers (Database/ Database server is not migrated)**

> **Important Note:** These steps are not applicable for [Virtual IP Failover](https://www.manageengine.com/network-monitoring/help/configure-failover-new.html)

- Stop both Primary and Secondary servers and ensure that no java process is running in the background.
- Take complete folder backup of both Primary and Secondary servers.
- Extract the Primary server setup/backup to the desired location in the new Primary server.
- Extract the Secondary server setup/backup to the desired location in the new Secondary server.
- Open command prompt and execute the below mentioned commands one by one in both Primary and Secondary server.

```
cd <OpManager_Home>/bin
OpManagerService.bat -r
OpManagerService.bat -i
```

- Once the above mentioned commands are completed successfully, start the Primary server.
- Once the Primary server gets started, connect to the UI and ensure that it started properly.
- Now start the Secondary server and ensure that it goes to the monitoring mode.

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**Steps to migrate the Primary Setup, Secondary Setup and Database to new servers**

> **Important Note:** These steps are not applicable for [Virtual IP Failover](https://www.manageengine.com/network-monitoring/help/configure-failover-new.html)

- Stop both Primary and Secondary servers and ensure that no java process is running in the background.
- Take complete folder backup of both Primary and Secondary servers.
- Execute the following query in the SQL Management Studio:

```
OPEN MASTER KEY DECRYPTION BY PASSWORD = '<DB_Password>';
close master key;
```

This query should be executed successfully with the message **"Command Executed Successfully"** as result.

- Take complete OpManager Database backup.
- Now restore the database to the desired MSSQL database.
- Now extract the Primary server to the desired location in the new machine.
- After completing extraction, navigate to `<OpManager_Home>/bin` and execute the command:

```
OpManagerService.bat -i
```

- Now execute `DBConfiguration.bat` and configure proper values to point the Database to the Primary Server.
- In `<OpManager_Home>/conf/customer-config.xml` update the value for the key `"masterkey.password"` with the DB Password used in Step 3.
- Now start the Primary server.
- Now extract the Secondary server to the desired location in the new machine.
- Follow steps 7 to 9 for the Secondary server.
- Now start the Secondary server and the Secondary server will go into monitoring mode.