What is the best practice to copy connectors and the related alarm templates from one DataMiner Agent to another Agent in order to not to install the drivers and create the templates manually?
Is it a supported procedure for this purpose to copy the contents of the C:\Skyline DataMiner\Protocols folder between the Agents on Windows level?
Laszlo Szabados [DevOps Enabler] Selected answer as best 26th June 2023
Hi Laszlo,
Apart from the 2 answers, indeed copying the Protocols folder on Windows level will work. In this case, you need to ensure that the source and target DataMiner versions remain the same.
Floris Cockaerts [SLC] [DevOps Advocate] Posted new comment 26th June 2023
Note that DataMiner only evaluates these files at startup, so the system would have to be restarted if this option is chosen.
Also, all TXF files are temporary cache files that are version specific. So these should not be copied, especially when moving between DataMiner versions. These get automatically cleaned when installing an upgrade package.