Exporting and importing Monitor Console environmental components with the CLI

The  mqsexport and mqsimport utilities enable you to export and import Monitor Console environmental components. You can use these utilities to back up and restore the entire Monitor Console environment or just selected components of the environment. These utilities can also be used to promote selected components from one server environment to another server environment.

The following export and import utilities work on custom views, rules, triggers, events and other Monitor Console objects:

• Exporting the environment with the CLI
• Importing the environment with the CLI
• Export and import command options
• Creating and using a translate file with the CLI
• Guidelines for using patterns
• Zip files used during imports and exports of the environment