Assisted sensor migration from classic Windows probes to multi-platform probes (with history preservation)
As a Systems Engineer decommissioning Windows hosts, I want a guided tool that maps existing sensors on a classic Windows probe to their equivalent multi-platform probe sensors, transfers their settings, and preserves (or links) their historic data, so that I can migrate my monitoring to Linux-based probes without days of manual re-creation and without losing the history my organization relies on for reporting and trend analysis.
Background:
The newly available MPP probe on a linux platform is a good move in the right direction, but we have discovered that sensors can not be moved from Windows probes to MPP probes, requiring sensors to be re-created. This is not only extremely time consuming, but also results in the loss of sensor history.
Suggest providing a tool to look at an existing sensor from a Windows probe that provides the related MPP sensor and populates the settings on it.
Not sure what to do with the loss of history data, but the suggestion to keep the original probe and sensor is a non-starter when we are trying to eliminate the Windows hosts.