bulk-profile-export for ALL groups in MCS Tools generates empty folders for some groups

Products

• DX Unified Infrastructure Management (Nimsoft / UIM)

Issue/Introduction

When exporting all configuration profiles using bulk-profile-export in MCS Tools generates empty folders for some of groups.
 

Environment

Release:
Component: UIMMCS

Cause

Some limitations exist when exporting ALL groups. Not all groups type are exported. 

Resolution

Containers groups will not be exported. A sub-Folder will be generated for eavery sub container group, but profiles are not exported.
Dynamic and Static groups are exported correctly. 

For exporting containers group the last level container group must be specified. Multiple groups can be added, comma separated.

Example:

java -jar mcs-cli.jar bulk-profile-export -base_url http://10.123.11.123/mcsws/v0 -directory E:/Test/ -groups containerGroupname1,containergroupname2,countainergroup3 -username administrator -password <passwordgoeshere> -force 


 

Additional Information

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