Events and server groups

When you use the Crystal Import Wizard to import information from a Crystal Enterprise 8.5 or later system, you have the additional option to import events and server groups from the source environment.

When importing server groups, the wizard does not bring across the servers that belong to that group. You need to manually add servers to the imported group in the Crystal Management Console (CMC). For more information about how to do this, see Adding and deleting servers.

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• When importing report objects associated with a server group, if the server group exists on the destination system, the report objects are added to the existing group and the source system's server group is not imported.
• If you have jobs scheduled or pending on a server or server group that you are importing, you might notice odd behavior on the destination system with the individual jobs involved until they run or time out.

Objects that have server group restrictions lose the restrictions if the objects are imported and the server group is not. For example, if a report is scheduled to run only under server group A and that server group is not imported, the report loses that restriction and will run under any server group. You need to import the server group at the same time as the objects that use it to keep the relationship between them.

The same logic applies for events: if an object is set up to wait for an event or to trigger an event, you need to import the event at the same time as the object. Otherwise, the object is imported without the dependency and no longer waits for, or triggers, the event.

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• If Event A is being imported from the source system but there is already an Event A on the destination system, and it is a different type (for example, a File event instead of a Custom event), the wizard removes the dependency on Event A from the object when it is imported.
• Events are based on Event Servers and, since servers are not imported, you need to manually reset the event server and file name information on the event in the destination system. Once this is set, the event should work as expected.

For procedural details, see Importing with the Crystal Import Wizard.