How to migrate Patch Manager Plus server installation from one drive/location to another within the same computer?

Description

This document will provide you the steps to migrate the Patch Manager Plus Server from one drive/location to another within the same computer.

Caution!

  1. You should not download a fresh EXE from the website and install in the new computer, you should only copy the installation directory to the new location.
  2. After migration, ensure that the patch and software repositories are reachable/accessible from the Patch Manager Plus server. 

Steps

  1. Stop the Patch Manager Plus Server before starting the migration process. To check if the server has stopped, go to task manager and ensure that no processes are running from Patch Manager Plus folder.
  2. Copy the entire Patch Manager Plus server folder from the old location and paste it in the new location.
  3. Navigate to <Installation_Dir>\conf in the new location and delete ws.modtime file.
  4. Run command prompt as administrator, execute command runOnceAsAdmin.bat from the location <Installation_Dir>\bin.
  5. Start  the Patch Manager Plus Server. 

You have successfully migrated Patch Manager Plus server from one drive/location to another within the same computer.

Note: To know the steps to migrate the server from one computer to another click here.

If you still have queries in this migration process, send the server logs to support