Adding nodes in NCM, NPM from a file

dihris

Hi folks.

I've been up and down every post I cannot find way to solve the issue that I've been tasked to resolve.

Here is what I've got so far...

We have in one of our offices (location A) SolarWinds NCM and NPM already running and setup with all the nodes within the office.

Soon these two servers will be decommissioned and new servers will be installed in different office (location that should continue monitoring the old equipment from location A.

What would be the easiest  and quickest way to export/import the existing configuration for our Nodes from the old NCM and NPM servers (location A) to the the new servers (location

Within the NCM Admin Guide it simply says:

"You can add nodes using the SolarWinds Network Sonar, add them individually, or import a list of nodes from a file."

It does not say how to generate that file from the old server (perhaps it should kind of Inventory Report)?

It does not say what kind of file type it would accept for import and what would be imported (inventory, alerts, scheduled jobs)

zkahl

You should consider taking a migration path rather then a complete rebuild.  I recently did what you are wanting to do, and there is a lot of work after the fact.  Especially if you have done a lot of work with maps.  The maps can be copied over but the node-ids change so most of them have to be cleaned up.  They way I did it was running an inventory report and capturing all the IP's of the nodes.  Then pasting them in sonar wizard under "specific nodes".

Your best bet is to read the document below, and keep the same DB if possible.  Be careful about using a differnent NPM or NCM version with the same DB.  The DB tables usually are changed with every upgrade,

http://www.solarwinds.com/documentation/Orion/docs/OrionServerMigration.pdf

Zak Kahl

http://www.loop1systems.com