Cisco Cisco Prime Unified Operations Manager 8.7 White Paper

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•  Using the polling parameters UI, on the standby server, switch over to the default 

polling interval of 4 minutes.  

•  Activate Synthetic tests. You can “Start” the tests that are stopped. 
•  Shift back to the original schedule for Phone Status tests.  

•  “Resume” the Notification Criteria. 

•  Verify that you are able to monitor the status of the network and the validity and 

execution of diagnostic tests and the notification profiles.  

•  Create a backup of the configuration of the ‘newly activated’ server 

•  Decommission the previously active server 

 

 
In some deployments, instead of having Backup server actively polling the network, 
administrators prefer to have a backup server configured but not online. Using the 
concepts illustrated earlier in this paper, you can achieve this quite easily. 
 

-  Configure a Primary server 
-  Setup periodic backups on the primary. 
-  Install a backup server. Shut down the Backup server by using “net stop 

crmdmgtd” at the command line. This will stop all activity on the Backup server. 

-  In the event of a failure of Primary, restore from the latest backup (or which ever 

you desire). 

-  Bring up the Backup server by executing “net start crmdmgtd” 
-  Wait until all the processes come up. 
-  Redo any changes to the configuration since the last backup. 
-  Now, your backup server is ready to be used. 

 
 

 
You will need to ensure that you do not have duplicate IP addresses across different 
network domains that you are trying to manage with the same Operations Manager. If 
overlapping IP address ranges exist, you will need to dedicate different Operations 
Manager servers to manage these domains.