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Any NCM v6.0 upgrade gotchas?

I am currently on v6.0 of NCM and would like to upgrade to the latest version (7.3.2). Anyone know of any gotchas that I might experience before I pull the trigger? Can I go directly from 6.0 to 7.3.2?

thanks.

Kelly

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superfly

What version of NPM are you on?

Check out the NCM upgrade path in this document.

SolarWinds Knowledge Base :: Compatibility of SolarWinds Orion Products for Installation and Upgrade

i3kellyb

I'm currently on v10.7 of NPM, but I am currently on a standalone NCM. I was planning to upgrade to a single server NCM and do the integration with NPM later.

If I am reading the document correctly, I need to upgrade to v6.1, then 7.1, 7.2 and 7.3?

Sorry, this is my first upgrade and I want to make sure that I'm doing it correctly.

cvachovecj

Hi Kelly Brown,

Have you considered upgrading NPM to the newest version (currently 11.0.1) and then installing NCM 7.3.2 on the same machine?

Maybe it would require less effort in total than a complicated upgrade path.

Regards,

Jiri

i3kellyb

I had considered that, but was leery that my current NCM data might get lost. If that is an easier path and I can preserve my data, that might be the way to go.

Thanks.

cvachovecj

If you want to preserve your data then you must follow the upgrade path. What kind of data are you specifically talking about? Maybe we can think of some compromise.

i3kellyb

Our main use of NCM is for network device config backup and for config change history. That would be the type of data we would want to preserve.

cvachovecj

Ok, then you have to follow the upgrade path.

Jiri

bharris1

How did the upgrade go? We are currently on NCM 7.0.2 with NCM and NPM on separate servers but integrated. Sounds like my upgrade will be similar to yours and was curious if you ran into any issues.

jodelgado

No issues at all.

Solarwinds dev group really thought about this thoroughly to make the upgrade smoooooooth. much props to dev team!