After migrating the software

Perform the following procedures after you migrate the PME software.

Activate software licenses

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Activate product and component licenses prior to the expiry of the trial license.

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Activate sufficient licenses for the servers and devices in your system.

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Export the existing hierarchy template out of Power Monitoring Expert before importing a new template. The new template can overwrite the existing template, which can permanently remove all information contained in the original.

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Backup or archive any SQL Server database data before adjusting any database memory options.

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Only personnel with advanced knowledge of SQL Server databases should make database parameter changes.

Failure to follow these instructions can result in loss of data.

After you are satisfied with the new system, return your old licenses and then activate the licenses on the new PME system.

NOTE: After you return the licenses, the old system is no longer functional.

For information on how to activate licenses, see Licensing configuration. For general information on licensing, see Licensing.

(Recommended) Restart the system

Restart (reboot) your system.

Verify correct database behavior

Verify that the system can access the databases by checking configuration settings and historical data logs. Confirm that the amount of historical data in the database is as expected. Use the database backups to restore any data that might have been deleted or lost, accidentally, during the migration.

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Back up the database at regular intervals.

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Back up the database before upgrading or migrating the system.

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Back up the database before trimming it.

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Back up the database before making manual database edits.

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Verify correct database behavior after making database or system changes.

Failure to follow these instructions can result in permanent loss of data.

Cybersecurity

Review the cybersecurity information. See Cybersecurity for details.

Windows Integrated Authentication for SQL Server

If you installed the new PME system with Windows Integrated Authentication, see Windows Integrated Authentication for SQL Server for post-install configuration steps.

Check services

Open the Windows Services dialog and ensure that all of the necessary ION services are started. The services run under the Local System account, by default. You can change the Log On As attribute of a service by specifying the account and password. Use the Log On tab on the service properties dialog to do this. The Log On As account must have read/write permissions on the product's installation directory, which by default is ...\Schneider Electric\Power Monitoring Expert.

For more information the ION Windows Services, see PME Windows services.

(For Standalone architecture only) Review Windows Task Scheduler

The Windows Task Scheduler has preconfigured scheduled jobs for performing backups, maintenance, size notification, trims, and archiving (on the ION_Data database) on the PME databases. Review these schedules and make any modifications that you require.

For more information on Database Manager and Windows Task Scheduler, see Database Manager.

Check IIS

Ensure that Internet Information Services (IIS) is working by typing the URL http://localhost/ in the address field of your browser to display an IIS image. In some cases, security restrictions may block access to this web page.

Set up Web Clients

Set up Web Client access in your browser, by entering the fully qualified domain name of the server hosting PME, or its IP address, followed by the path name. The path name is configurable during the install of the software. The default path name is /Web. Example: https://ServerName/Web or https://10.152.35.18/Web. For more information on Web Clients, see Client types.