Exporting and importing a saved report view

To export a saved report view to another instance of License Metric Tool, check the ID of the report view in the source instance of License Metric Tool. Then, use the GET operation to retrieve the definition of the saved report view. Next, use the POST operation to import it to another instance of License Metric Tool.

1. Check the identifier of the saved report view.
   • For application update 9.2.38 and later, perform the following steps.
     1. Log in to the instance of License Metric Tool from which you want to export the saved report view.
     2. In the top navigation bar, hover over Reports and click Saved Reports.
     3. Hover over Configure, and click Configure View.
     4. Select ID, and click Submit. ID of the saved report view is provided in the ID column.
   • For application updates 9.2.37 and earlier, perform the following steps.
     1. Log in to the instance of License Metric Tool from which you want to export the saved report view.
     2. In the top navigation bar, hover over Reports, and click Saved Reports. Open the saved report view, and check the last number in the report URL. In the following example, the report ID is 2.

        http://server_url:server_port/sam/pvuonlysubcapreports#32fe0f54dc719893faacc1d0f38a0c9045863729/2

2. Obtain API tokens from both instances of License Metric Tool.
   1. Hover over the User icon , and click Profile.
   2. In the API Token line, click Show token.
3. Open the command line interface and change to the location where cURL is installed.
4. To export the report view, use the following GET request:

   curl -H "Token:token" -o C:\saved_reports\report_definitions\pvu_subcapacity.txt 
   -X GET server_url:server_port/api/reports/report_ID

   Where:

   -H

   Specifies the header of the request.

   -o

   Specifies the path to the file where the definition of the saved report view is to be saved.

   -X

   Specifies the type of HTTP request.

   report_ID

   Specifies the identifier of the saved report view that is to be exported.

   token

   Used to authenticate REST API requests.

   If the request is successful, the following message is displayed:

   HTTP/1.1 200 OK

5. To import the saved report view to another instance of License Metric Tool, use the following POST request:

   curl -H "Content-Type: application/json" -H "Token:token" -X POST -d "@C:\saved_reports\report_definitions\pvu_subcapacity.txt"
   server_url:server_port/api/reports

   Where:

   -H

   Specifies the header of the request.

   -X

   Specifies the type of HTTP request.

   -d

   Specifies the path to the file where the definition of the saved report view was saved.

   token

   Used to authenticate REST API requests.