Exporting Hosts
Exporting hosts from an ArcSight Management Center will create a CSV list of hosts managed by that ArcSight Management Center. (Password information is not included in this file.)
After adding passwords for each host to the file, you can then import this list of hosts into another ArcSight Management Center, using the Import Hosts feature described under Importing Multiple Hosts
Exporting hosts is most useful when you are reassigning management of hosts from one ArcMC to another.
For example, consider two ArcSight Management Centers, called ArcMC East and ArcMC West. ArcMC East currently manages 50 hosts. However, you are consolidating management of all hosts to the new ArcMC West. To do this quickly and easily, you would export the hosts from ArcMC East into a CSV file. Then, you would add an additional entry for ArcMC East to the CSV file.
After adding in password data for each host, you would import the resulting CSV file into ArcMC West. At the end of the process, all of ArcMC East’s hosts, and ArcMC East itself, would be managed by ArcMC West.
To export hosts in ArcSight Management Center:
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Select Node Management > Export Hosts.
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All hosts managed by the ArcSight Management Center are exported to the local CSV file (
exporthosts.csv
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Optionally, open the file in a CSV editor. Add the password information for each host to the CSV file, and then save the file.