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:

Generated reports

Monitor metadata and historical information

Logs

Statistics

Administration

The snapshot section of the admin menu allows to do the following:

Configure backup plan

Define when the automatic backup will be done

Upload and apply snapshot:

Replace existing configuration by the one in the snapshot

Create and export snapshot:

Create a snapshot file containing the backup of the current configuration

Import configuration:

Merge some part of a snapshot in the current configuration

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.

You would like to merge to Redpeaks instance A another Redpeaks instance (called in this example Redpeaks instance B).

Redpeaks instance B has the following configuration :

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 :

Companies and Profiles present in the snapshot file to be imported (Redpeaks instance B) are displayed in two different tables

Companies table (left) :

Check on “Confirm” column to import the company

Check on “Confirm” column to import also the corresponding company configuration

Notice that checking on “Import Configuration” will automatically select all profiles affected by that specific configuration (if any)

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

Check on Import tags if you want to merge also the Tags

The application will then display a screen with all imported elements information (see image below).

More about Companies table :

Action : Informs the user about the action to be taken. There are three possible values :

Copy :

If a given company name to be imported is already present in Redpeaks instance A, the application will suggest to copy that company.

At the end of the company name it will added a numerical suffix.

Create : The application will insert the company into the ProMonitor database.

Ignore : The company already exists in the ProMonitor database and has the same Id.

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