Synchronising 2 NNMi servers is not simple and straightforward as you would hope/expect.
Unlike HPOM (OML) for example, where you can simple download configuration and upload it again (or in the case of v9.2+ where you can automatically synchronise 2 systems), NNMi doesn't have a neat way to achieve this.
The situation is over complicated with the 2 database options used by NNMi - Oracle and the embedded Postgres database.
According to HP, the Postgres/embedded version has better options for exporting and importing the data to a 2nd server for DR purposes, but using Oracle the solution is far from simple or elegant. I can't even get a clearly-defined process from HP support which is worrying.
At the moment I am experimenting with the export and import tools, which seems to cover all of the config settings, but at the moment it's reporting errors importing the trap definitions into the DR NNMi server. This is critical of course, because if the DR server doesn't have the correct trap definitions configured then the alerts won't look the same on the server if we failover or go into DR (disaster recovery) mode.
I'm working with HP support to resolve this, but once again it highlights the poor development of these tools and the lack of adequate and sufficient error reporting.
I'll let you know how I get on.
Dave
