I have a server running NPM 10.4.1 and NCM 7.1.1. The database server is separate. There are two Orion related databases on the DB server, one for NPM and the other for NCM. The Orion server is the DR instance of another server.
The goal is to upgrade both NPM and NCM and all the installed components to current versions; and switch the production environment to the new systems. The IP address of the server currently used in the production environment will be assigned to the new server at that time.
To start the upgrade process, I setup two servers: a new database server (running SQL 2014), and a Windows server 2012.
I backed up both databases from the DR environment and restored them on the new SQL 2014 server.
On the new Windows server, I installed NPM 11.0.1 and connected to the NPM database successfully.
Next, I installed NCM 7.3.2. This is where things got weird. NCM is not really giving me the opportunity to connect it to the restored NCM database. So, I am not sure where it is going to get its historical data from.
Also, I see the following error in the Orion web console's home page: "You currently cannot connect to the main NCM server servername either because the server is not yet upgraded to version 7.3.2 or there is a problem on your network. The Orion server cannot access the SolarWinds Information Service. The exact error was 'Expecting state 'Element'.. Encountered 'Text' with name ",namespace".'."
Trying to explore NCM Settings, will give me the same error.
Has anyone seen this before?
