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Upgrade from 8.1 NPM to latest Version

Can anyone tell me the best path to upgrade from 8.1 to latest Orion NPM? I do have 2 servers on running 8.1 actively and one that is not being used at all. Would it be better to upgrade Second server to 9 and then move over to it or upgrade my current active server? Do I need to upgrade in steps? (ie. 8.1 to 8.5 to XX)?

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Hi,

If the three servers use the same database, they need to run the same Orion version.

Would it be better to upgrade Second server to 9 and then move over to it or upgrade my current active server?

If they use the same database, Stop all of them, Upgrade one of them to v9.1 SP3, and then upgrade the two remaining servers.

If two Orion servers running different version connects to the same database, you will have some issues as the database schema has changed and they use differently the database.

Do I need to upgrade in steps? (ie. 8.1 to 8.5 to XX)?

You can upgrade directly to 9.1 SP3.

As per the release notes:

When upgrading from versions prior to 8.0, you must first upgrade to an 8.X version of Orion NPM before you can upgrade to the current version. Contact SolarWinds Support to obtain required Orion NPM versions.

Please read carefully the release notes before to upgrade (e.g. if you have modules installed.).

Here are Some advises you can read before to upgrade too.

HTH,

Yann

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