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Export Sensors and reimport into new installation

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Hi there We are planning to install new PRTG-Servers (1 Core- and 2 Probe-Server, changing from Windows Server 2008 R2 to Windows Server 2012 R2) with new Hostnames according to our new Naming-Policy. IP's will be the same. The Structure inside PRTG will be a little bit different after new installation.

We've got lots of Custom-Sensors (Oracle-DB, Application-Sensors etc.) which I don't want to create from scratch.

Is there a possibility to "export" all Sensors and re-import the ones I need in a complete new installation?

Due to Name changing and Structure Change I cannot create DB-Snapshot and rebuild from there.

Any help is appreciated Regards

export import installation migration sensor

Created on Sep 16, 2015 8:26:31 AM



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Sorry it's not possible to extract sensors out of the configuration, i.e. do a partial migration. Only a full migration is supported, as outlined here.

Created on Sep 16, 2015 8:51:56 AM by Stephan Linke [Paessler Support]

Last change on Sep 16, 2015 10:25:42 AM by Stephan Linke [Paessler Support]



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Ok. Thanks for your quick answer.

Then I have to create the sensors new by drag and drop settings and config from the old installation (luckily we're using vmware-servers).

Regards

Created on Sep 16, 2015 8:59:18 AM



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I wonder if it would work to do a full migration(clone), and then delete the unwanted sensors on each instance. e.g. clone sensor A B and C from first instance to second instance. then remove sensor A and C from first instance and sensor B from second instance.

Created on Dec 8, 2015 11:20:26 PM



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Nope :) Risk of rendering the configuration unusable after a lot of effort is pretty high. Start with the larger configuration and auto discover the other infrastructure. Then remove unwanted sensors or add missing ones. That's your best bet :)

Created on Dec 9, 2015 7:46:27 AM by Stephan Linke [Paessler Support]




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