Can you create bulk Beyond Trust connections?

Hello Brian,

For the XML import, do you mean you have an XML from BeyondTrust that you'd like to import in RDM?

As for the multi-select creation, this is a really interesting feature and we'll add it to our todo list. :)

Regards,

Hi Hubert,


I have approximately 700-800 servers to import now that our company has moved over to BeyondTrust. I was looking for a bulk way to import them all rather than adding one at a time. Ideally, if we had the ability to select all, or groups of servers from the BeyondTrust Console it would make it easier, however, I can't do that now and I'm not sure if that is possible. I was looking at my XML export of the current servers and wondered if I could just replace each server name with a different server and import it that way if that would work. Problem is, I don't know the formatting of XML and the import into RDM well enough to know that not only will it import cleanly but actually work.


I'm looking at an XML export right now and I see some things that may prevent me from using XML to import all of these connections:
First, the <ID> field is different, so is the <Stamp> and <SafePassword> fields. If there were a way to ignore these fields where all I would have to do is just change the server name that is contained in the <URL> and <SystemName> fields, I could work with that. It would still take more time, but faster than adding one server at a time.

Brian,

The XML/RDM file import isn't suited for this. I think you might be able to accomplish what you want with a CSV export/import instead. You can export your selection to CSV by selecting your entries and right clicking > export > export special > export selection (.CSV).
Then look at the exported values and modify it as you wish.
You can then import the CSV back in RDM by doing right click > import > import session CSV wizard, then selecting your modified CSV file.

Let me know how this works for you.

Regards,

Yeah, I see that but I don't know if those different fields I listed are going to break something or where I need to add something where I will have to go in and make edits. In that case, it wouldn't be worth it. I'll check to see.

If you could provide a way to select all on a list of servers in the BeyondTrust console view and allow us to import a mass amount of servers, that would be awesome!

When you do a CSV export, there aren't any fields like ID or Stamp to fill out, it's different from an XML/RDM import, but I understand it can be confusing if you aren't familiar with it.

Regardless, we'll work on allowing for multi-selection in the BeyondTrust console since it's a great feature to have. We'll let you know once we have something. :)

Regards,

Hi Hubert,

Can you tell how long this feature request would take to get implemented in RDM?

It would also be nice when hitting the + sign to add the asset as a new entry that the name of the entry would automatically fill with the asset name which is being added in order to do fast bulk imports.

I am very interested in this as we are moving to BeyondTrust and I would like to keep using RDM for our Techops team. Manually adding all assets for each team member would not be an option.

Thanks,
Christian Marcinek

Hello,

We're currently closing in on the release of RDM 14 so we're focusing our efforts on fixing issues rather than implementing new features like this.
This is still pretty high in our todo list so we're hoping to work on this feature soon after the release of RDM 14, but I can't give you an estimate at the moment since we have a few other priorities that sprung up. I'll let you know once I have an idea.

We could definitely make the asset name be the default name for the created entry.

Regards,

Thanks for the info Hubert. Looking forward to your update!

Hi Hubert,

Are there any updates on this?
Thanks,
Christian

Hello Christian,

Sorry about the lack of updates. We've had to push back this feature, but we'll put it back on our list. At the moment our Beyondtrust environment isn't working and we have a ticket open with their support to help us fix it. We'll work on this as soon as our environment is back to a working state.

Regards,

Hi Hubert,

Any news on this?

Thanks,
Christian

Hello Christian,

We're still in communication with the BT team, as we need a license to complete our setup, but it should be ready soon. We'll be able to start work on this afterwards.

Regards,

Thanks for the update on this. Looking forward to the feature!

Any updates on this feature request? Currently users have a choice of adding servers one by one or selecting to execute from a dashboard. To be able to bulk import or have a list of what's available to a user and select those to bulk add, would be awesome.

Hello,

I think this feature got forgotten. I will open a new ticket for this and we will see what we can do. We had plans to support something similar with our CyberArk console already, so it's in line with our plans for the future.

Regards,