Snapshots
Overview
A snapshot is a backup of the configuration, written into an exportable JSON file
It contains:
Monitoring settings (Companies, Systems, Connectors, SAP users, Monitors, monitoring Profiles, etc…)
Administrator settings
Redpeaks Users settings
Plugins
It excludes:
Administration
The snapshot section of the admin menu allows to do the following:
Backup plan
The backup plan will define how often a backup of the configuration will be performed.
The backup operation consists of taking a snapshot of the configuration, which is stored on Redpeaks server.
To configure the backup, set its recurrence using the backup plan formular below.
If Smart backup is active, the snapshot will be created only if a configuration change occurred since the last backup
Upload snapshots
Use the upload button to select a snapshot file on your local system and upload it to Redpeaks
It will be displayed in the table of available snapshots. From this table you will see snapshot date, comment and if it was added manually or generated automatically.
Select your snapshot and press Apply, it will replace the entire configuration by the one set in the snapshot
Note: Redpeaks has been designed to 100% backward compatible with any version of snapshots
Caution: To apply a snapshot will remove any existing configuration, if you want to be able to recover it, take a snapshot before.
Take/Export snapshots
Press the Take snapshot button to manually create a snapshot of the configuration
The snapshot will be displayed in the table.
Press the Download button to copy the file on your local system.
This file can then be used to export the snapshot to another Redpeaks instance or to restore its configuration.
Import a configuration
This features allows to import groups and configuration from an existing snapshot.
Unlike Import snapshot
, this will MERGE selected components into the current configuration, and not replace everything
This is a convenient way for exporting some configuration from one Redpeaks instance to another.
Example
You have a Redpeaks instance called in this example Redpeaks instance A
It has in its database some companies, systems, connectors and monitoring profiles as in the image below.
On Redpeaks instance A : Click on “Import a Configuration” button.
Select the ProMonitor snapshot file containing the configuration of Redpeaks instance B to be imported.
The following screen will be then displayed :
Profiles table (right):
Check on the monitoring profiles that you want to import
At the top of the screen, you can enter a profile suffix
The profiles suffix will be displayed in Redpeaks instance A after merged
The colum “Used by” will display all company names that are using a given profile
As shown in the image here below, the result of the Import Configuration operation will be a merge of data from ProMonitor instance A and ProMonitor instance B