Dumping and Loading Devices To and From XML

Zenoss allows you to dump a list of your devices to an XML file for easy importing onto another Zenoss instance. The command:

zendevicedump -o mydevicelist.xml

will dump the names of your devices, including their device classes, to mydevicelist.xml. To load those devices onto another Zenoss instance, just do:

zendeviceload -i mydevicelist.xml

Zenoss will then attempt to discover each of the devices in the XML file.