Exporting and importing blackout and monitoring policies

You can export and import Central Monitoring Administration monitoring and blackout policies by using the command-driven Policy Migration Utility. This topic contains the following procedures and supporting information about importing and exporting policies:

Notes

The policy migration utility does not export Integration Service or cluster details of Agent configuration under the monitoring policy.
If the source computer has the base and extended repositories and the destination computer has only the base repository, policies created using the extended repository monitoring solutions fail to import on the destination computer.
The time-frame names are not case-sensitive.
For example, if the destination computer has a time frame Tf1 and if you try to import a time frame tf1, the import fails.

Location of Policy Migration Utility command

Windows: <installed_location_Presentation_Server>\bin\cmapolicymigration.bat
Linux: <installed_location_Presentation_Server>/bin/cmapolicymigration.sh

Example:

C:\Program Files\BMC Software\TrueSightPServer\truesightpserver\bin\cmapolicymigration.bat

Command syntax

To export policy files

On the Presentation Server host, go to the bin directory that contains the policy migration command:
- Windows: CD /D "%TRUESIGHTPSERVER_HOME%\truesightpserver\bin"
- Linux: cd $TRUESIGHTPSERVER_HOME/truesightpserver/bin
From the bin directory, run one of the following commands:
- Windows:
  
  cmapolicymigration.bat export options attributes
- Linux:
  
  cmapolicymigration.sh export options attributes

Export options and attributes

Export examples

cmapolicymigration.bat export all -d "C:\Program Files\BMC Software\TrueSightPServer\truesightpserver\data\oob_policies"

cmapolicymigration.bat export –p Policy1 –n Policy2 -d "C:\Program Files\BMC Software\TrueSightPServer\truesightpserver\data\oob_policies"

To import policy files

On the Presentation Server host, go to the bin directory that contains the policy migration command:
- Windows: CD /D "%TRUESIGHTPSERVER_HOME%\truesightpserver\bin"
- Linux: cd $TRUESIGHTPSERVER_HOME/truesightpserver/bin
From the bin directory, run one of the following commands:
- Windows:
  cmapolicymigration.bat import options attributes
- Linux:
  
  cmapolicymigration.sh import options attributes

Import options

Import examples

cmapolicymigration.bat import -d "C:\Program Files\BMC Software\TrueSightPServer\truesightpserver\data\oob_policies.mo"

cmapolicymigration.bat import -f -d "C:\Program Files\BMC Software\TrueSightPServer\truesightpserver\data\oob_policies.mo"