Prerequisites for Migration

General device prerequisites

• Register the source and the target devices to the management center.

• We recommend that the target device is a freshly registered device without any configurations.

• Source and target devices must be in the same:

  • Domain

  • Firewall mode: Routed or Transparent

  • Compliance mode (CC or UCAPL)

• The target device must not be:

  • In a multi-instance mode

  • Part of a cluster

• Ensure that you have modify permissions on the devices.

• Ensure that the configurations on the source device are valid and have no errors.

• The source device can have pending deployments. However, deployment, import, or export tasks must not run on either of the devices during the migration.

Prerequisites for change management:

• Ensure that source and target devices are not locked by a change management ticket.

• Ensure that shared policies assigned to the source device are not locked a change management ticket.

Prerequisites for HA devices

• If the source device is part of an HA pair, the target device need not be part of an HA pair and vice versa. The migration does not form or break the HA pair.

• Migrate a device only from an active management center.