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Best way to migrate Group definitions to new Orion instance?

I am about to build a new Orion Platform instance and will need to re-create a large number of Groups - most of which are defined using dynamic queries. Must I build those Groups manually all over again?

Would it be possible to "script" the process using the SDK?

Appreciate any guidance and examples. Thanks.

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cpund

Might be possible to copy the table over from the old database. Looks like that table is in the solarwinds database, under the Containers group, named Containers. There's also the ContainerMemberDefinitions table.

Daran

how do you view/interrogate the sw database?
Is there a way to find the parent of a nested group?

cpund

Login to the primary poller and access the Database Manager is the way I generally get to it. I supposedly could log into the DB with SQL Server Management Studio but access rights are a little weird here so it's generally just easier for me that way.

Finding the parent of a nested group via standard SWQL or via the database? The latter would like just have that as part of the definition of the group/container.

Daran

Hi,
we have our group sites arranged under regional groups e.g.
APAC
- Hong Kong
- Australia
EMEA
- UK
- Germany

Etc.

and would like to include the Regional group in the alert that gets sent to Service Now but need to know how to generate it as a variable in some custom SWQL in the alert manager definition.

bobmarley

There are several similar posts if you Google 'solarwinds create group powershell'

PowerShell Group Creation with Dynamic Query - Forum - Network Performance Monitor (NPM) - THWACK (solarwinds.com)