Topic "How to add multiple sessions from template folder" a message from Aurum

Hi,

I asked this once before but we never really got it to work and now with the new version I thought I might give it another try.

What we want to accomplish is to add a new office (lets take Berlin as an example) to our rdpm database from a template folder (already in rdpm).
All the offices are identical (Hardware, IP Addresses, links, ect....) the only difference is the name (we use airport designations) and the subnet of course.

I created a folder in our database called #template, containting all subfolders (switches, ups, esxi, ect.....) and sessions.
In all the sessions names i put &quotXXX&quot instead of the real name (for the example it would be BER) and in all the ip´s in place of the subnet there is &quotYYY&quot.

There are no credentials in the template sessions

So a session in this template folder looks like

XXX-SW-001 with configuration http://10.20.XX.21

and so on (in total its about 25 session entries)

Now (assuming I explained it comprehensibly ) what I want is a way to duplicate this entire #template folder including all sub folder and sessions, replace the XXX values with BER and YYY with &quot25&quot

A collegaue suggested to export the #template folder to a .rdm, use an editor to quickly change XXX and YYY values and to reimport the modified .rdm file.
Im not sure if this is a good idea because the IDs for the sessions entires would be the same.


Any help is greatly appreciated.
I have been asked about this feature a lot and never was able to figure out how to do it right.

If I have been going about this in a completely wrong way and there is a much simpler way to achieve this, please enlighten me.


Thank you very much