Restore OVM Manager Simple Names After a Rebuild/Reinstall

Restore OVM Manager "Simple Names" After a Rebuild/Reinstall

APPLIES TO:
Oracle VM - Version 3.3.1 and later
Linux x86-64

GOAL:
There are occasions when a re-install of OVM Manager is required, together with restoration of a previously backed-up database. However, the manager database restore does not recover the "simple names" of objects - e.g. virtual machine and disk names, even though the backup saves these in an xml file.

The automated backup creates the required xml file in the /u01/app/oracle/mysql/dbbackup directory - filename format /u01/app/oracle/mysql/dbbackup/OVMModelExport-yyyymmdd_nnnnnn.xml

Ensure a copy of the backed-up file will be available to perform the restore.The attached ovm_shell scripts will restore these simple names from the xml file created from an automated or manual backup of the manager database.

The xml file will be generated in /u01/app/oracle/mysql/dbbackup (3.3, 3.4)
              cd /u01/app/oracle/mysql/dbbackup
              OVMModelExport-yyyymmdd_nnnnnn.xml

To restore the simple names from the backup, download the appropriate script attached to this document and run it.   
From Google Drive - Download restoreSimpleName script for 3.3 and 3.4(21.22 KB)

              cd /u01/app/oracle/ovm-manager-3/ovm_shell
              ovm_shell.sh -u <USERNAME> -p <PASSWORD> -i /tmp/restoreSimpleName-3.3.py /u01/app/oracle/mysql/dbbackup/OVMModelExport-yyyymmdd_nnnnnn.xml
              JUDI-DEV-01 # : ./ovm_shell.sh -u admin -p Pr0jectFun -i /tmp/restoreSimpleName-3.3-v1.2.py /u01/app/oracle/mysql/dbbackup/OVMModelExport-20171105_896756.bkp..xml

It may be necessary to omit the ".py" suffix when calling the python from ovm_shell, e.g.
              OVM > ovm_shell.sh -u <USERNAME> -p <PASSWORD> -i /tmp/restoreSimpleName-3.3 /u01/app/oracle/mysql/dbbackup/OVMModelExport-yyyymmdd_nnnnnn.xml


Oracle Doc ID 2129616.1


~Judi~
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