topic how to clone a management zone in Open Q&A

how to clone a management zone

nosca73 — Tue, 09 Nov 2021 14:47:42 GMT

Hi Everyone,

for testing purposes we like to clone existing MZ and then tweak them , is there a way to clone/copy them without manually recreating every entry?

thanks in advance!

Re: how to clone a management zone

Andy_Evans — Tue, 09 Nov 2021 15:07:20 GMT

You should be able to use the API to get the parameters of a zone you want to copy, then paste that info into to create a new one

Re: how to clone a management zone

rodrigo_alvare1 — Tue, 09 Nov 2021 17:25:27 GMT

The steps to follow are:
- Create a token with read & write configuration permissions
- Retrieve the ID from your Management Zone with GEt /managemetnZones API (or on the Dynatra UI URL when editing the MZ)
- Retrieve the info from the MZ to copy : GET /managementZones/<id>
- POST /managementZones using the body previously retrieved, remove the Id before submitting and change the Management Zone name to the new one

You can use Postman or Dynatrace Monaco (https://github.com/dynatrace-oss/dynatrace-monitoring-as-code) if you plan to repeat this process again and again. Also you could add a clean up step to remove that info created

Re: how to clone a management zone

uros_djukic1 — Thu, 01 Jun 2023 08:09:44 GMT

Hi,
For all practical purposes, I am currently running below 1.266 version and we have the possibility to clone MZ in UI thanks to this button then tweak the existing rules:

Thanks