How can I copy the hosts from one SIM server to another?

[scotted]

Is there a way to copy all the systems from one SIM server to another? I have looked for the cim_ip.dat file but cannot find one?

[Rob Buxton]

Depends on how they were added.
I just use Discovery, so it's just a matter of cutting / pasting the Discovery Ranges and using Discovery on the new Server.

I've found using the Discovery ranges is the easiest way of maintaining what gets included / excluded.

[scotted]

They were added 2 ways:

1) Manually
2) some host files


So how can we copy the hosts to a new server?

[scotted]

They were added 2 ways under Discovery:

1) Manually
2) Host Files


So how can we copy the hosts to a new server?

[Derek_56]

Scott,

You will likely still need to let the new server run through a discovery, identification and data collection on the systems. I recently accomplished this by exporting a report from the old server that included all the systems' IP addresses. Then took that file and added the string "mxnode -a " before the IP addresses on each line, renaming the file from file.txt to file.cmd and ran it on the new server (on the console.) The contents would look like this:

mxnode -a 10.30.1.190
mxnode -a 10.30.1.191
mxnode -a 10.30.1.192


You could of course script this so that you call mxnode -a programmatically for each line or you could use a host file for the discovery tool in SIM. I found it quicker to use the mxnode command since I knew about it.

Derek