How do I migrate settings between multiple installations of VNC Manager. I have several engineers and hundreds of customers managed by VNC Manager. I can't setup hundreds of server registrations at each station... I'm sure there is a way, I just can't find it. I'll keep looking until I get a response to my post.

Thanks,

Doug

Doug Ford

The I.T. Pros<

I'll do my due diligence before I post - I think I figured it out moments after I posted this question. However, I may not be the only person with this question so I'm glad I did.

It appears to me that the "import" or "restore" of settings is as simple as setting the default server list and configuration path under advanced options and then restarting VNC Manager so that it will re-read the two directories. I haven't found an "import" or restore option anywhere. I like that I can create a centralized location for the configuration and server list settings... it makes it really easy to manage hundreds of servers over multiple stations. However, to be more consistent with other UI's I would recommend an additional "import/export" dialog box to easily import and export configs and server lists. Not a "feature request" just a UI recommendation.

Regards,

Doug

Doug Ford

The I.T. Pros<

Doug,
we actually have this feature. You can find it under Manager->Backup Configuration. What it does, it allows you to copy servers list or/and other settings to some arbitrary folder. Using this feature you can copy all settings to a remote computer.

We don't have an Import feature yet. But it probably will be added some time soon.

We just use Tools-Options-Advanced to set a share path location on the network, and all PCs get the same config each time the program is started.

Just make sure that only 1 workstation updates the connections....

By the way, we are planning to implement Import feature in v3.0

 I think there may be a feature upgrade request so that there could be a centrally managed list of servers S-Code files and have the ability of the users "pulling" the list of servers be able to feed in their current username and password into the user name and passwords list for each server.  To be more clear:  Have a way of segregating the list of server, hostnames and folder organization settings so that you could pull the list of servers from a network share but then be able to use a "local file for the passwords and user name globally either via a local app stored setting or be able to just poll and pull the current username and password of the workstation session into a cache and to use in logging into servers (the username and password are synchronized across about 35 domains in our company so the username and password would need to be pulled separate from the domain in order to work in our scenario.

I can think of a way to keep the server ip, hostname and folder organization pulling from a network share location and by writing a script to poll the information from the workstation user session and insert into the corresponding XML fields to work but I am hoping to get S-Code to make this feature available somehow so that large "Enterprise" users could centrally manage the list of servers, IP's and folder but be able to "pull" in security specific information such as username and password.

Put another way we would need a way to Centrally manage the server IP information so it could be used by 100 engineers who all work on the same servers and IP but have different user names and passwords while having the ability to use the AutoLogin feature that providing the username and password provide.  Right now we can centrally manage the server IP and folder organization by using a dummy userame - but we then have to type our user and password for every login to a RDP session (we sometimes open 20 servers at a time.)