Importing Devices into Ciscoworks via Seedfile

[aw_wongala]

How can one import a bunch of devices into new ciscoworks version via seedfile? It is different to the older versions as the inventory dump includes sysOID attributes etc that were not included before. Help!

[David Stanford]

You would need to get the format of the new seed file and use that. If you attempt to use the old seedfile format it will fail.

You could get a sample csv file from LMS 2.5 by manually adding a device and exporting it. Then use something like excel to copy and paste fields from the old one to the new one.

[aw_wongala]

Thanks i tried that but there are new fields like sysOID which seem to be different for each device... thats what i need to workaround. Appreciate the help!

[henniae · Accepted solution]

Just leave those fields blank. RME will query the device for the OID.

[aw_wongala]

thanks i will give that a whirl and post my findings .. sounds like what i want to hear so lets see if it works! thanks henniae

[David Stanford]

If you are looking for the sysObjectID's you can find the here:

http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/rtrmgmt/cw2000/cw2000e/e_4_x/4_0_3/sdt/rme403.htm

[aw_wongala]

Thanks guys its worked and im over the moon!! Thanks for all your help!