Hi Guys,
I am looking to move lot of devices from one instance to our instance. Need help on getting this done.
I am doing this for the first if any could provide a walkthrough would be helpful.
The quick and dirty solution here is just to export a list of all your monitored IP's from old env and then put them into discoveries on the new environment.
If you want to move over things like custom properties and SAM templates or NCM settings each of those adds some more steps, but as a general rule when I would do consulting projects I expect to be able to mirror over everything in a week, maybe 2 if the environment is really big/complex. But that's because I had done them many times before and know what to look for. If you are new to SolarWinds it is a challenge because there are a ton of modules, each has different kinds of settings and considerations to learn about. I'd expect a new user in a medium sized environment (500-2000 nodes) to end up spending closer to a month trying to get a new environment to fully cover everything that was in the old environment.
In really big projects I end up doing most of that work with API scripts instead of hand editing, but if you arent already strong in scripting and working with API's then it would take you much longer to learn than to just do it all by hand. And the scripts tend to be pretty bespoke so it's not something you could really just publish on thwack and expect it to reliable work for most users. Things get complicated like how the API or the behaviors or Orion change from one version to the next, or which modules are installed in each environment, etc etc.
I can have the api script looked at by someone, The upcoming sprint has nearly 500 devices all network snmp enabled devices. Would you be able to share the script with me?
