Export current web reports and scheduled activties?

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Hi,
We are building a new BigFix environment and I want to take my existing web reports and scheduled activities and copy them into the new environment. Does anyone know how I can do this? I’d much rather not recreate all of those reports and scheduled activities.

thanks in advance for any information
Gina

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Are you just migrating your services to new servers, or building a whole new deployment (with a new masthead file)?

If you’re migrating the existing deployment to new servers, you can do this with a database backup & restore onto the new server.

If it’s a whole new deployment, it’s possible to export the custom reports individually and import them onto the new server, but we don’t have a process to do that in bulk; and, because the property IDs for custom properties are unique within a deployment, you’d need to modify each report and re-select any custom properties in filters or columns.

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Hi,
Thanks for the response. It is a new deployment, with a new masthead. How would I export the custom reports?
Thanks in advance for your help

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We have a procedure for that listed at https://help.hcltechsw.com/bigfix/10.0/platform/Platform/Web_Reports/c_creating_a_portable_report_for.html

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Thank you, this is helpful. Is there a way to export the scheduled activities too?

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I’m afraid we don’t have a documented process for that. While it might be possible at a SQL level, I’m afraid I don’t have anything helpful. Especially given that all the user account ID numbers and report ID’s will change as you export/import into the new server.

If you need to preserve the data, I can’t recommend strongly enough that you look at doing a server migration (preserving the data and database of the existing deployment) rather than building a new deployment and migrating the clients.