• When the license keys installed on the Data Center Expert server are not adequate for all the devices you want to migrate, a message will be displayed. You can purchase additional node license keys, if needed, and add them to the Data Center Expert server before you continue the migration.
• When devices on the private LAN are migrated, the InfraStruxure Manager will be turned off when migration is complete.
• Devices on the public or private LAN must be migrated in order to migrate notification settings. Otherwise, only recipients are migrated.
• Devices on the public or private LAN must be migrated in order to migrate the data log.

  Note

  If a device is already monitored by the Data Center Expert server, the data log for that device will not be migrated.

• Users must be migrated in order to migrate SOCKS Proxy.

• InfraStruxure Manager users enabled after migration will be created in the Migrated from InfraStruxure Manager user group on the Data Center Expert server, with view access to all device groups.
• InfraStruxure Manager local users disabled after migration will be created in the Unassigned Users group on the Data Center Expert server. The passwords are not migrated. You can specify a password when you enable the user.
• InfraStruxure Manager RADIUS users are not migrated to the Data Center Expert server.
• When an InfraStruxure Manager SOCKS Proxy user is not also a Local user, a Data Center Expert Local User is created and enabled during migration.
• When a SOCKS Proxy user is also a Local user on InfraStruxure Manager, a Data Center Expert Proxy user is created. The password is not migrated, and the user will be disabled.

InfraStruxure Manager administrator user credentials you provide to the InfraStruxure Manager Migration Utility:

• When the InfraStruxure Manager authentication method is RADIUS Only, the administrator user credentials are not migrated.
• When the InfraStruxure Manager authentication method is RADIUS, then Local, a Data Center Expert Administrator user is created during migration if the local administrator credentials do not already exist on the Data Center Expert server. The password is not migrated, and the user will be disabled.
• When the InfraStruxure Manager authentication method is Local Only, a Data Center Expert Administrator user is created during migration if those credentials do not already exist on the Data Center Expert server. The password is migrated, and the user will be enabled.

• When NTP is disabled on the Data Center Expert server and enabled on the InfraStruxure Manager, NTP and Time Zone settings on InfraStruxure Manager are available for migration.
• When NTP is enabled on both the Data Center Expert server and InfraStruxure Manager, only the Time Zone settings on InfraStruxure Manager are available for migration.
• When NTP is enabled on the Data Center Expert server and disabled on the InfraStruxure Manager, only the Time Zone settings on InfraStruxure Manager are available for migration.
• When NTP is disabled on both the Data Center Expert server and InfraStruxure Manager, Time and Time Zone settings on InfraStruxure Manager are available for migration. The time on the Data Center Expert is set to match the time on the InfraStruxure Manager.

• Devices on the public or private LAN must be migrated in order to migrate notification settings. Otherwise, only recipients are migrated.
• A Data Center Expert notification policy is created for each device group migrated from InfraStruxure Manager. An alarm action is then created for each recipient with its notification settings.

  Note

  Notification policies are not created for groups containing no devices.

• Credentials for the APC Remote Monitoring Service (RMS) are not migrated. You must manually enter your RMS credentials in the Data Center Expert client.