Hello,
What would be the steps to transfer the Users & Groups from a Production DMA to a new Dev DataMiner?
Is it enough to copy the Security.xml file from one server to the new one, under C:\Skyline DataMiner, or is there a need to transfer any other file?
Thanks in advance for any help!
Hi Carolina,
The Security.xml file is bespoke to a DMS. It is not a portable file that can be imported on another system by copying it over. I would advise not to do so as this could cause unforeseen issues on the system.
There’s no built in functionality to transfer users between different DataMiner Systems. The level of ease thus depends on how the users are configured.
If the users are managed in an external directory (AD, LDAP, Azure AD, …) then it’s a matter of configuring the target DataMiner System to make use of said directory. See User Directories.
If the users are all defined as local users on the system, then they will need to be created manually on the target DataMiner System.
With Kind Regards,
Thanks Simon!
In this case, they are all local users, so I don’t think we have a solution now. I’ll propose the automation script solution!
Note:
If you’re dealing with a large amount of local users you could try and automate this through automation scripts, one which export users to a CSV file and one which can import the CSV file.