Below you will find a description of the script for the daily backup of the device configuration of one or more Didactum IT monitoring systems to an FTP server. The script is executed on the local operating system of the user (administrator). Python 3 is required to run the script.

The latest version can be downloaded here.

A task scheduler of your operating system is required to run this script every day (cron, anacron, cnacron – for Unix/Linux; Task Scheduler, nnCron – for Windows, etc.). In the "User Settings" section, the following parameters must be specified:

	Parameter	Function
	username	User account name including administrative rights on the device.
	password	User password with administrative rights on the device.
	ftpurl	FTP server address.
	ftpuser	FTP server user.
	ftppassword	FTP server password.
	ftpdir	FTP directory for the copies of configuration settings.

The list of IP addresses of the IT monitoring systems is defined in the file hosts.txt.

Example: 192.168.0.193

The configuration file of each IT monitoring system is saved on the FTP server in the specified directory using the following naming scheme: settings_mm.dd.yy-hh:mm:ss.zor.

The Python script for the daily backup of the configuration file of your Didactum monitoring system can be downloaded here (as a .zip file) free of charge. To run the script, execute one of the following commands:

Start script > python zorbackup.py or $ python3 zorba