Designing and Managing Behavior Models - Importing and Exporting NerveCenter Nodes and Objects -
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Importing and Exporting NerveCenter Nodes and Objects

Unlike SerializeDB, with which you back up or restore an entire NerveCenter database, the NerveCenter Client import and export features enable you to choose which NerveCenter behavior models, objects, or nodes to import or export. Perhaps you have developed a behavior model that you want to propagate across a multi-NerveCenter server environment. With the export feature, you can selectively load one or more behavior models, (or individual objects) into another NerveCenter server's database.

In addition to directly exporting to another NerveCenter server's database, you can also export NerveCenter objects, nodes, and behavior models to a file. Using the import feature, you then import such files into a NerveCenter database. For example, you might want to create a master node list and then divide it into smaller lists to export to remote NerveCenter installations. Or, perhaps, create a node list as a backup for quick recovery should the system go down.

For a complete list of the types of NerveCenter objects that you can export, see the section, More about Exporting Objects.

NerveCenter ships with object and behavior model files (.mod) that include fixes and vendor-specific behavior models. Because not everyone will want to use them, these objects and models are not loaded into the NerveCenter database by default. With the import feature, you can load these definitions into your NerveCenter database.

For complete information about exporting and importing nodes, objects, and behavior models see the following sections:

Section	Description
Exporting Behavior Models to Other Servers	Describes how to export all the objects associated with a behavior model from one NerveCenter database to another NerveCenter server.
Exporting Behavior Models to a File	Explains how to export all the objects associated with a behavior model from the NerveCenter database to a file.
More About Exporting Behavior Models	Lists exactly what NerveCenter exports when you select a behavior model.
Exporting NerveCenter Objects and Nodes to Other Servers	Describes how to export individual nodes and objects from one NerveCenter database to another server.
Exporting NerveCenter Objects and Nodes to a File	Explains how to export individual nodes and objects from the NerveCenter database to a file.
More about Exporting Objects	Lists the types of NerveCenter objects that you can export and what actually gets exported.
Importing Node, Object, and Behavior Model Files	Explains how to import exported NerveCenter node, object and behavior model files.