Migration Manager 7.5.4->8.0.1

[Dr Zoidberg]

Hi folks,
I'm trying Migration Manager for the first time and am not having much joy. I've read most of the threads on here and have also studied the Plesk manual.

I log in as "admin" with password set correctly and set Sudo password to that of root.

I leave "Data import" unchecked (no info on what this is about in Plesk manual), set the working directory to usr/local/psa/PMM/var and leave the mount point to the default /

It seems to do something for a few seconds and then I get the following error:

Cannot send scout to the remote host

Failed to execute scout.
The return code is 1
The output on STDERR is

Sorry, try again.

Sorry, try again.

sudo: 2 incorrect password attempts

Please, can someone advise what I am doing wrong?

TIA.

 

[jwdick]

Possibly two things could be wrong,

1. firewall - have you blocked access to the ip of the new server you are trying to migrate to?

2. Your old server may not allow "root" to log remotely and/or the userid (if not root) does not have sudo priviledges on the old server.

Check your firewall settings and to give "admin" sudo rights on old server, do the following:

Edit the sudo file on the old server using this command: (WARNING: Only edit the sudo file using the visudo command)o:

#/usr/sbin/visudo

add the following line
"user" ALL=(ALL) ALL

 

[Dr Zoidberg]

Originally posted by jwdick
Possibly two things could be wrong,

1. firewall - have you blocked access to the ip of the new server you are trying to migrate to?

The new server (to which I wish to migrate) allows SSH from the old server. The old server (from which I wish to migrate) allows SSH from any address for the moment.

2. Your old server may not allow "root" to log remotely and/or the userid (if not root) does not have sudo priviledges on the old server.

Check your firewall settings and to give "admin" sudo rights on old server, do the following:

Edit the sudo file on the old server using this command: (WARNING: Only edit the sudo file using the visudo command)o:

#/usr/sbin/visudo

add the following line
"user" ALL=(ALL) ALL

Thanks, I'll try this and let you know!

 

[Dr Zoidberg]

Thanks for your help - all's working now.

FYI setting the permissions as advised on the old server fixed part of the problem. The other part was in my description of how I was logging in - namely, "I log in as "admin" with password set correctly and set Sudo password to that of root."

This is incorrect: it should read, "I log in as "admin" with password set correctly and set Sudo password to that of admin."

Thanks for your help - apart from a couple of bugs which I'm going to post about separately, this seems like a very handy tool.

 

[Herby]

Another reason may be that ssh server must run on port 22.

If you changed it (for security reasons) change it back for the migration.

 

[dietcheese]

actually your SSH does not have to run on port 22, but root login has to be enabled.

just enter the IP address like:

IPORT

15.15.15.155:2222

Works for me

DC