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How to Migrate to Advanced Policy Management

Migrating to an advanced policy management environment lets you deploy and undeploy policies, and check the deployment and deviation status of policies.

Note: Advanced policy management does not support policies with password management commands. You must use a password PMD to synchronize passwords between endpoints and to distribute password management rules. You cannot migrate a password PMD to the advanced policy management environment.

Before you begin the migration process, verify that:

• All subscribers are available
• The subscribers have received all updates from the PMDB
• No subscribers are synchronized with the PMDB

Important! We strongly recommend that you back up the PMDB before you begin the migration process.

To migrate from a PMD environment to an advanced policy management environment, do the following:

1. Install the Enterprise Management server components.

   The advanced policy management environment is set up as part of the Enterprise Management installation process.

2. Upgrade the PMD host to CA ControlMinder r12.5 or later.
3. Migrate the endpoints.
4. Migrate the PMDB.

More information:

How the Migration Process Works