Moving SCOM environment to new servers

We need to upgrade our SCOM servers from Windows Server 2008 to 2012.   In our current environment we have all of our servers in the same environment -- both Prod and Test servers. When we make the move to new servers, we want to fix that,
so that we have a proper Test environment with only the Test agents in it, and a Prod environment as well.    So, because we don't want to carry forward all of the old data that no longer applies to that environment, we were thinking that we'd
just no migrate over the SCOM databases, and start fresh.   I have an idea of how I plan to tackle this migration, but I am looking for some confirmation that what I have in mind make sense and would work.   So here's how I foresee the
migration going...
1. We install SCOM onto all the new Test environment servers, with a fresh database, everything brand new.
2. We export the management packs from the current SCOM environment and then import them into the new SCOM environment.
3. We update the Test SCOM agents and tell them to report to the new Test SCOM environment.
4. Repeat the same steps for Prod.
Is it really as simple as that?   Seems like if we have the management packs there, that all the overrides we've configured should still be there as well as the groups, monitors, rules, etc that we've created in our current environment.
So if we simply import those onto the new environment and tell the agent to go there, then everything should still apply correctly, right?
   Does that make sense?   Am I missing something and it's not really this easy?

Yes, it really is that simple. It's even easier if you have to upgrade the agents. I've already done this to migrate from SCOM 2007R2 to 2012R2. I stood up the new environment, imported the MPs and then ran discovery for the systems I wanted in that environment.
The new SCOM 2012R2 MG deployed/upgraded the agents and they were "dual-homed" reporting to the old 07 and the new 12 instance. After I was happy with the new 12 instance, I just removed the configs from the 07 agents and shut down the 07 management
group.
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