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Remove Installer files

I hope this is the right place for this question as I didn't find an Orion Core forum? I am currently upgraded to Orion Core 2019.2. I'm having a space issue on my system drive for the Main Poller/Core. I have found a large cache of files at C:\ProgramData\Solarwinds\Installers Is it ok to delete these files?

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mesverrum

I haven't experimented with removing specific old files one by one because after having seen people removing the folder interfere with upgrades and such for clients I did not have an appetite for experimenting with finding the limits of exactly which files are vital and which aren't. Especially painful if I get rid of something and then 3 months later I get a call about some random error messages that we didn't run into or notice right away.

I know people who use symbolic links to shuffle all that %programdata% stuff to other drives, such as discussed here:

https://blog.kmsigma.com/2016/10/30/how-i-build-an-orion-server/

I don't know how successful one would be in converting an existing server to use those though. Seems doable but I hate mucking around breaking a system that's already running in prod. In most cases I can find other places to make room with stuff I know won't have an impact or expanding the drive is easy.

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mesverrum

No it is not okay to remove them, the config wizard uses those files to uninstall and reinstall services, and they also will be necessary when you go to upgrade.

jameslindsay

It's not OK to remove any of them? Given I'm on Orion 2019.2 and all my modules are current, is there a date for which anything older can go? Short of that, is there a way to move everything under C:\ProgramData\Solarwinds to \?

mesverrum

I know people who use symbolic links to shuffle all that %programdata% stuff to other drives, such as discussed here:

https://blog.kmsigma.com/2016/10/30/how-i-build-an-orion-server/