Moving the MarkVision Server

As newer hardware becomes available, it may become necessary to move the MarkVision Professional Server to another machine, or import settings from one instance of the MarkVision Server to another server. Since MVP is extremely customizable, you may not want to repeat the process of creating folders, filters, and rediscovering devices. MVP provides the option of either moving an entire MarkVision Server or exporting specific settings for folder configuration and MarkVision Messenger actions to a file to be imported on another server.

Starting and stopping MarkVision Server for Windows

Windows 2000

  1. Go to Control Panel step Administrative Tools step Services step MarkVision Server.

  2. Click Start/Stop.

    Note: You can use the same process to start or stop the MarkVision Web service.

Windows Vista, Windows XP, and Windows 2003 Server

  1. Go to Control Panel step Performance and Maintenance step Administrative Tools step Services step MarkVision Server.

  2. Click Start/Stop.

    Note: You can use the same process to start or stop the MarkVision Web service.

Starting and stopping the MarkVision Server for Mac

Note: You can use the same process to start or stop the MarkVision Web service.

Starting and stopping MarkVision Server for UNIX

Starting and stopping MarkVision Web service for UNIX

Moving the MarkVision Server

Create a backup of MVP customized data and then integrate the data onto a new machine:

  1. From the original machine, stop the MarkVision Server.

  2. Back up the directories in which the customized data files are stored.

    • In Windows, the default directories are:

      C:\Program Files\Printer\MarkVision Server\granite\data

      C:\Program Files\Printer\MarkVision Server\granite\plugins

      C:\Program Files\Printer\MarkVision Server\mvp-tomcat\webapps\ROOT\~plugins

    • For Macintosh and UNIX, the default directories are:

      /var/spool/markvision/data

      /var/spool/markvision/plugins

      /usr/mv_pro/mvweb/www/webapps/ROOT/~plugins

  3. Install the MarkVision Server on the new machine.

  4. Stop the MarkVision Server.

  5. Replace the data, plugins and ~plugins directories saved during step 2 into the same locations on the new machine.

  6. Restart the MarkVision Server.

    Note: The listed files do not contain settings for window and frame sizes or positional information.