October 19, 2011 at 10:43 am
we have all of our 1000 instances stored in a central DB. I can easily pull these out, and group and order them in whatever way I want to. How can I then import this list into the Central Management Servers list of servers? Is there some utility somewhere that creates the xml file in the required format ready for import?
thanks
October 20, 2011 at 12:03 am
Try this:
Right click -> Tasks -> Import.../Export...
See the attached screen shot for reference.
Exported file is in xml format.
October 20, 2011 at 2:37 am
thanks for the reply. what i'm after though, is a way to put my serverlist (held in another table) into that XML format, so that i can add all these 1000 servers in one go, rather than register each one. any utility out there that creates the xml file for you?
October 25, 2012 at 1:43 am
issue solved. there are msdb stored procedures used to create/add servers and groups you enter into your CMS setup in SSMS. the names escape me, but if you trace it you'll find them and then just google them/BOL them for more info on how to use them. i got the the point where i was able to rather quickly add 10s/100s of instances into various groups in seconds, once i'd retrieved a suitable source list of instances to use.
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