I am migrating to Deadline 6 and want to know if I can export my pools and groups list from Deadline 5 into a format that I can import to Deadline 6. Dont really want to have to do it manually as we have large groups and pools. 
Cheers
There is no built-in mechanism. You could do this a couple of ways with scripting, either parsing the XML or just querying the slave settings, and then another script to push the settings to DL 6. The question is whether the effort to write the script is greater than just manually copying the settings over.
Me no want write silly script. Copy, paste, create, finished. 
Drop the attached python script into Deadline v6 repository path “…/scripts/General”, execute the script by clicking in monitor > scripts > “DeadlineV5Migration”.
DISCLAIMER: This script has the ability to wipe all your Deadline v6 settings for slaves, limits, pools, groups, users. It doesn’t migrate any of the main repo options, as these can easily be modified once in the “Configure Repository Options” and so much has changed between v5 & v6, that it would be inappropriate to try and automate the migration of these settings. It is recommended this script has security permissions limited to only experienced Deadline / IT staff.
Note: Deadline v7.0 has a “import settings” wizard, so future migrations will be supported natively within the core of Deadline.
DeadlineV5Migration.py.zip (4.17 KB)