Am trying to deploy a new orion platform for our network devices, would like to know what modular section you can loose on migration and level of effort you will need to move to the new server. Please advise me thanks
Need a LOT more detail.
Are you just standing up a second instance or replacing an existing one? What is the reason for wanting to replace as opposed to fix? Is the server not powerful enough and un-upgradable? or Orion messed up?
What modules are you wanting to redo?
How many problems are there with the existing installation and is the database good?
If your DB is good, you can backup and restore on another server then connect it to a new Orion NPM. Bear in mind that a new NPM cannot be a 12.x if your existing is 11.x because the DB needs to upgrade in parallel with NPM upgrades. You will have to ladder up.
Am working on setting a second parallel instance from scratch to replace the existing one. Am working on replacing the current one because it was created at 2014 and never updated before I arrived. Its an enterprise build with over 1500 servers and network devices which need to be migrated. WAN spaced out in roughly 30 different locations and 2 data center (1 as a backup data center) with about more than 6000 IP addresses. We do have DBA's to build the new system who do have a good idea of CPU, RAM and processing units needed from the past installation in 2014. Thanks for the help
Build the new instance under a temp license. That buys you a month to stand it up.
Make sure that the network devices have the new Solarwinds IP address as an allowed SNMP server and that the firewalls will allow it.
I think that you can run the software for Free for 30 days, then if you have a current maintence in place you can raise a support case with SolarWinds and request a migration licence which will give you at least a further 30 days, maybe more if you have a friendly account manager.
As lmcbuilder says make sure that all your devices have been configured to respond to your new IP's for your new build.
