Import selected instances from another location to the IBM® Business Monitor database.
For example, you can import instance data to reverse the archive operation
or to clone data for new test and development environments.
Before you begin
To use the import option, your
IBM Business Monitor server
must be running in a development mode. In a network deployment environment,
make sure that at least one application server is running in a development
mode. Check the application server status from the administrative
console by navigating to .
About this task
The import option is supported so that you can edit the .csv
files in text editors to make small changes and import them to the
monitor model version. You can change the data value for a specific
instance, but you cannot change the file format and data format. Also,
be sure to keep the file encoding, which is always UTF-16LE.
In
a network deployment environment, when importing instance data from
the server file system, select the directory where the Deploy Manager
resides.
To import instance data to the
IBM Business Monitor database,
complete the following steps:
Procedure
- On the administrative console, click .
- Select the model for which you are importing instances.
- Select the version of the model.
- Under Managing Monitor Data, click Import Instance
Data.
- Indicate the location of the instance data that you want
to import:
- To import instances that were exported to a .zip file in a
directory on your local file system, click Local file system.
In the Full path field, enter or browse for
the fully qualified file path to your local directory where the instances
are stored. Click OK. You cannot upload a .csv
file; you upload a .zip file because the monitor model has multiple
monitoring contexts and there are multiple .csv files for one instance.
Using a .zip file transfers all necessary monitoring context .csv
files at one time.
- To import instance data with the same timestamp from the .csv
files or within a directory on the server, click Server
file system. In the Full path field,
enter or browse for the fully qualified file path to the server where
the instances are stored. Click OK.
Note: If
you select one directory, all data in all of the .csv files of the
current model version in the directory is imported. If you select
any one of the instance data .csv files, the data of the .csv files
within the same directory with the same timestamp is imported.
- Click Import.