Hello,
I'm trying to clone all the nodes from an old instance to a new instance and am stuck. I've tried to state everything that is pertinent to the question and would appreciate some guidance.
Jay
Goal:
To bring up a new AWS based instance of SW with all the nodes (1000 public facing internet IPs) and all the custom fields intact from the old instance.
Methodology to date:
Nightly, via API, I grab a copy of the Nodes table. I am using this as my source. Thus far I have succeeded in creating the nodes with the custom data. 700+ ICMP only nodes and 300 SNMP enabled. Community names are set
Problem:
Nothing is polling as I did not create any pollers. Not sure what else I might have to do.
Questions:
What is the best was forward? As background, we are an MSP, and all these nodes are scattered around the internet on customer premises, so discovery is difficult, and I assume, the custom fields data woul be lost.
Is there a way for SW to auto-detect an existing node? If so, how can I trigger this? Manually or via API.
I have determined the poller names in use on the old instance, can I enable these in all SNMP nodes? What happens if I enable a poller that the device does not understand? Performance hit, wait times?
I could create the exact pollers from the old instance as I did save the old nodeID, this option is obviously the most programming work, haha.
Finally, what haven't I figured out yet? Will polling start once the pollers are in place?
I'm halfway through the free 30 day license on this new instance, so would appreciate any help / direction you can provide.
Regards,
Jay
