Migration of NPM to new server: Do you need to manually migrate custom Universal Device Pollers, SNMP and Syslog alert configurations?

I have NPM 12.1 and I don't see this documented anywhere but I feel the need to get clarification.

Are all these configurations/settings stored in the NPM database so when I install a new NPM app server and connect it to the database they are "there and ready to go with no configuration"...or do I need to migrate them by hand (export from old NPM then import into the new NPM)? There are "import/export" functions in all of the separate little UI's that manage them.

*If* I have to import/export custom pollers:

- Are the custom pollers going to need to be re-associated with all the nodes they are currently associated with or is that linkage stored in the database so that importing them is all I need to do for a migration?

- Can I (should) do the import after NPM is installed, but before the Configuration Wizard is run, or after teh COnfiguration Wizard is run? I feel like I should have the custom pollers installed before the Configuration wizard is run so when NPM taks to teh database for the first time/services start up the pollers are "tere"/

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tigger2

Update: I upgraded and my Universal Device Pollers, Syslog alerts, and SNMP alerts all "migrated" without the need to export/import anything for them. Thanks for the input above!

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i_like_eggs

Hi,

Recently I did a database migration to a new VM and didn't need to export UNDP pollers, the pollers just migrated with the database and were still assigned to the same nodes\interfaces after i hooked the new solarwinds modules up to the previous database

tigger2

Thanks! That's what I was hoping would happen with the custom pollers. The Syslog/SNMP alerting configurations are just alerting so if they don't move over i can just re-import them

mesverrum

The syslog trap viewer alerts are also in the db so I would expect you should be okay there as well.

tigger2

Update: I upgraded and my Universal Device Pollers, Syslog alerts, and SNMP alerts all "migrated" without the need to export/import anything for them. Thanks for the input above!