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Migrate scheduled reports to new server

I have a customer who has migrated his Orion NPM to a new VM. He had approximately 30 scheduled NPM reports on the old installation. I've been advised by SolarWinds Support that the scheduled reports are in fact Microsoft tasks run by the MS Task Scheduler and there is no supported way to copy the schedule to the new installation. Has anyone encountered this problem before and if so, is there a solution?

Thanks.

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Nandish

I am currently looking into it.Will have you posted soon!

Nandish

Orion Scheduled Jobs consist of two things:
- The OrionJob file (Job-xyz.OrionJob stored in the Orion Program folder) which describes the actual job (what page, email address etc.)
- A Scheduled Task in the Windows Task Scheduler that basically carries the scheduling settings of the Job and triggers the execution of the Job.

So in order to migrate Orion Scheduled Job you need to copy the OrionJob file(s) AND carry over the Windows Scheduled Tasks.
- The Windows Task Scheduler allows for exporting and importing of the Tasks so it’s quite possible to transfer those. But it might be necessary to check / reenter windows account credentials under which the Scheduled Task is run.

Win XP/2003, have task scheduler jobs stored in *.job files.
Vista/2008/Seven/2008 R2 have task scheduler jobs stored in *.xml files.
So, migration of task scheduler jobs from those two different groups of Windows isn’t possible, unless there is some converting tool available.

njoylif

great info! Can you guys put that into a KB article?

thx

jeff.stewart

http://knowledgebase.solarwinds.com/kb/questions/3154/Migrating+scheduled+reports+to+a+new+server