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Upgrade from Orion V7

Hello, I was wondering if anybody has had any issues upgrading from Orion version 7.
Is this a transparent process? Will our settings be migrated? Is any data lost?

I appreciate any responses,
JP

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lucast

quote:Originally posted by jp.senior@bell.ca

Hello, I was wondering if anybody has had any issues upgrading from Orion version 7.
Is this a transparent process? Will our settings be migrated? Is any data lost?

I appreciate any responses,
JP

Only issue we ran into was that all nodes were automatically set to SNMPv2. We had to go back and change a few nodes (speciality devices) back to SNMPv1.

Everything else was flawless!

alterpoint

Hi - upgraded from 7x to 8x this week - no real problems and it carried over all my settings and data. Only hiccup I had was trying to remember the database password.

michael.buskin

At first i wanted to upgrade orion itself, but also decided to upgrade to SQL Enterprises Server 2005.
Nothing went wrong, all my snmpv2 and v1 nodes were ok. Well Done SolarWinds.

quote:Originally posted by jp.senior@bell.ca

Hello, I was wondering if anybody has had any issues upgrading from Orion version 7.
Is this a transparent process? Will our settings be migrated? Is any data lost?

I appreciate any responses,
JP

Regards,

Michael Buskin
+61415369688

mpatla

Sorry to jump in on this topic. I am getting ready to upgrade to v8 on two polling engines. My question is do I upgrade the NetPerfMon or Polling Engine first. Or does it matter?

Thanks.

Gavin

I just upgraded yesterday. No problems. Everything migrated fine. The only minor thing that did not transfer was the alerts that I had created.

mlinval

I am planning an upgrade to 8 myself. The added issue is that I am also moving the software to a new server. Would you recommend me upgrading first and then moving or can I somehow move a 7.x to an 8?

SJHawkins

Guys

Forgive me if I'm being foolish, but I've found no documentation anywhere regarding the upgrade procedure - you know in terms of install alongside/over the top, remove v7 first / what backups to take where etc?

I can take reasonable guesses at this, but I'd prefer some guidelines to save me getting it wrong.
Cheers
Stuart Hawkins

michael.buskin

Currently writing an upgrade procedure manual for our company, if you would like a copy please email me michael.buskin@gmail.com

quote:Originally posted by SJHawkins

Guys

Forgive me if I'm being foolish, but I've found no documentation anywhere regarding the upgrade procedure - you know in terms of install alongside/over the top, remove v7 first / what backups to take where etc?

I can take reasonable guesses at this, but I'd prefer some guidelines to save me getting it wrong.
Cheers
Stuart Hawkins

Regards,

Michael Buskin
+61415369688

brunnerb

Hello,

we have an Orion V7 SL100 License with 1 year Maintenance.

How can I upgrade of the new version and where i will find the update?

Can I download the demo and create a new key?

Thanks

Björn

bob557

I just ran the installer and it automatically upgraded me from version 7 to 8 with no major problems. Only minor thing is it overwrote my map since it was the default name (EXAMPLE MAP) but that was my fault.

This is a bit late of a reply, but I had no troubles doing this upgrade. This is information for anybody who may be searching older posts.

mgibson

Upgraded 7.8.5 to 8.1 Last Friday and installed the Hotfixes to my primary poller. All went well. There were some issues. I have a Seperate SQL Server, a primary poller, and a secondary poller.The Min RQ's call for .net 2.0 or higher, so I installed .net 3.0. As it turned out with both 2.0 and 3.0 installed only 2.0 is used by ORION.

Following the upgrade, my Syslog service began bouncing, Support suggested a .net 2.0 repair and a re-run of the config wizard to reinstall the syslog service. This fixed the issue on my primary poller. A few hours later my secondary poller began doing a similar thing. I performed the same steps and in the end, I continue to have the same problem.

I had to go and change older nodes back to SNMPv1, evidently after the upgrade the default version used is v2c. Not a major issue.

One problem I am experiencing at the moment and wait on this Monday morning for Support to contact me, I was previously recieving Syslog events from PIX and Cisco FWSM devices. I am no longer seeing these events in Syslog viewer. I ran wireshark and have confirmed that the syslog event are making it to this syslog server.

As for my Trap reciever, I am recieving this in the event log

EventID 1023TrapserviceSolarwinds Event Log An Exception was thrown while updating the varbinding information. Error Detail-Timeout expired. The timeout period elapsed prior to completion of the operation or the server is not responding.

Do not know why this is occuring, but will touch base with Support.

I haven't had time to check into this, however one of my user's has noticed that the Web refresh rate seems to take longer. (not the frequency, the refresh time)

I do not have Cirrus, but would like to add a config Icon to my node details screen, can anyone assist me? Would be nice to have the current config and startup config, as well as a means to write the config to a TFTP Server.

I also would like to a ssh icon to the node details screen.

Anyone know how to add the ChassisID? I have configured the device and the custom MIB poller, however I can't get the macro to get the info.Perhaps some a step-by-step would help.

Has anyone found a solution to getting the IP Address Mgt working yet? I have created a url shortcut to my Toolkit Web site from the IP Address Management tool. Suely someone has better intregated this that could lend assistance. Do not know when that SW Rep "asd "will have the time to complete this project. One would think that with all the interest in this that they could make it a higher priority!!

mgibson

Been working with Support for a few days and have what is thought to be a solution to my issue.

1. No problems with Orion itself, but with Syslog.

2. Syslog service bouncing with Windows events 1003,1004,1104,1103,1102, and SW Log 1018, 1002,1003, and 0

3. Removed .net 3.0 and 2.0, reinstalled .net 2.0, re-applied hotfixes to primary poller. still had issue. Removed "reg Expression" entries in syslog rulesets. no more events in primary poller event logs, syslog service stopped bouncing. Reinstalled syslog service via config wizard

4. Secondary poller syslog event log still shows EventID 1004

Reporting queued error: faulting application SyslogService.exe, version 8.1.2715.19414, faulting module kernel32.dll, version 5.2.3790.4062, fault address 0x0000bee7.

5. Applied hotfix #4, wait to see if syslog service continues to bounce. Looks good thus far

It appears that the use of reg expressions in the DNShostname and/or Message tabs in syslog is broken in this version.