Copying and pasting a service or process between process agent hosts

You can copy and paste a selected service and its related processes, or a selected process, either within a process agent, or from one process agent to another.

1. Perform any of the following actions from Netcool/OMNIbus Administrator:
   • If you are connected to the process agent and the Service/Process Details pane is open, go to the next step.
   • If not already connected, connect to the process agent. On successful connection, the Service/Process Details pane opens.
   • If you are connected to the process agent, but the Service/Process Details pane is not currently on display, click the Status icon in the Configuration window for the process agent, to view this pane.
2. From the Service/Process Details pane of the process agent from which you want to copy a service or process, select the relevant service or process, and then click Copy in the toolbar. The selected service and its related processes are copied to the clipboard, or the selected process is copied to the clipboard.
3. To paste the contents of the clipboard within the same process agent, click Paste in the toolbar of the current Service/Process Details pane.

   To paste the contents of the clipboard to another connected process agent, access the Service/Process Details pane for that process agent, and then click Paste in the toolbar.

4. If you copied a process, the Process Details pane opens. Process names must be unique per process agent, so rename the process if necessary, and make any other required changes. Click OK to close this window and paste the process details to the Service/Process Details pane. Alternatively, click Cancel to cancel the paste operation.
5. If you copied a service, the Process Agent Consistency Checker wizard opens. Service names must be unique within the process control network, and process names must be unique per process agent, so renaming is required. Perform the following actions:
   1. Click Next to proceed to the next page, and amend the service or process details as required. You can specify a new name for the service by overwriting its name. To amend the details of each process, double-click the process entry to obtain the Process Details window, and then make the relevant changes. You can additionally specify whether to include or exclude a process in the paste action. On UNIX, click within the Include in Paste cell to toggle between the true and false options. On Windows, right-click over the process entry and then select or deselect the Include in Paste option in the pop-up menu.
   2. Click Next to view a summary of the service and processes to be pasted.
   3. Click Finish to close the wizard and paste the details to the Service/Process Details pane. You can also click Cancel to cancel the paste operation.