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
• Pro.Monitor Users settings
• Plugins

It excludes:

• Generated reports
• Monitor metadata and historical information
• Logs
• Statistics

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

• 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 Pro.Monitor 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

• Use the upload button to select a snapshot file on your local system and upload it to Pro.Monitor
• 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: Pro.Monitor 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.

• 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 Pro.Monitor instance or to restore its 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 Pro.Monitor instance to another.

• You have a Pro.Monitor instance called in this example Pro.Monitor 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 Pro.Monitor instance A another Pro.Monitor instance (called in this example Pro.Monitor instance B).
• Pro.Monitor instance B has the following configuration :

• On Pro.Monitor instance A : Click on “Import a Configuration” button.
• Select the ProMonitor snapshot file containing the configuration of Pro.Monitor instance B to be imported.
• The following screen will be then displayed :

• Companies and Profiles present in the snapshot file to be imported (Pro.Monitor 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 Pro.Monitor 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 Pro.Monitor 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