NCM 5.0 / NMP 9.1 interopability / DB questions

Question

Given:  We currently have NPM 9.1 running in production on a MS-SQL 2000 cluster environment.

We would like to install NCM 5.0 on the same application server for consolidated syslog information.

Forgive my ignorance, the questions I have are more from the database/design perspective:

Is it possible to run the NCM 5.0 product on the same application server that NPM 9.1 is on, but utilize a different backend database server from the NPM product, as illlustrated:

NPM 9.1 on Server APP1, talking to MS-SQL 2000 DB on Server DB1

NCM 5.0 on Server APP1 talking to MS-SQL 2005 DB on Server DB2

The reason I ask is because we anticipate migrating some point in the future to MS-SQL 2005 (64-bit), and would like bring up the NCM application using MS-SQL 2005 for it's database in order to save a migration later.

We would then at some point in the future migrate the NPM database over to the same MS-SQL 2005 cluster, which also begs the question does that migration take a re-install of NPM, or just move the database and re-run the database wizard to point to the new location of the DB?

Thanks in advance for your help!

Regards,

Bob

chris.lapoint · Answer

Once the database has been successfully migrated from 2000 to 2005, it should just be a matter of rerunning the database wizard.    I'd recommend checking the appropriate MSFT docs on how to move databases from one version to another.

reheindel · Answer

Other item I was asking about:

When I want to migrate from MS-SQL 2000 to MS-SQL 2005 backend, I just need to move the DB and re-run the database wizard, no need to reinstall correct?

Thanks again for your help!

reheindel · Answer

Great, thanks for the information guys!