As the title suggests, I am now building a new solarwinds, complete with all of the newest applications. Now, the simple solution is to remove all of the licenses from our old environment and then add them to the new environment that I have built. The complex part is the old database and it's contents. It's data rich and has, in theory everything that I would need to save me time.
The real problem is that's it's cluttered from when people would try to resolve solarwinds, or added an alert/report/other and just kept adding to the mess. A good example for this is that we have alerts that say when a job has been completed. For me, personally, I don't like working in a mess. I love things uniform, small, light and it just works. I don't want to see 200 + emails a day saying how something has been completed. I'd want to know when something has failed.
So, do I start it all over again, or do I migrate the database to the new SQL server? I think to do it properly and have my reports and alerts on how I like them, I might have to start from nothing and then slowly action it at a time. This way I know what I am doing and have control over what's happening and how it is happening.
But you know when something seems like such work you just think 'let's just bosh it'
