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Pre-install step of downloading installers before the actual install
I love the new SolarWinds Orion Installer process for upgrading Orion. While upgrading my environment this morning I was waiting around while the Installation step took time to download all the needed software. Since all the services are shutdown while this happens this lengthens the overall downtime of Orion. (This is…
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How I Migrated From Orion 2017.3 to 2020.2.1 With No Issues and Minimal Downtime
Let's get to the point, you need to upgrade to Orion 2020.2.1 and I want to help. I'm sure you've read all the articles in the Success Center and even contemplated that one method you read about doing this with "Zero Downtime". Well instead, I'm just going to tell you what I did and hope it at least helps a couple people…
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Allow Orion Platform Centralized Upgrade from Alternate Web Server
Considering DHS Emergency Directive 21-01, which requires (Appendix B, item 8), "The SolarWinds Orion server, the web server, and the database server instances must be installed on separate and dedicated hosts," support running an Orion Platform centralized upgrade using an offline installer from an alternate web server…
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"Database configuration failed" after NPM 12.2 to 12.4 upgrade
Configuration Wizard fails with the following message after updating NPM 12.2 to 12.4 with an offline installer: Database configuration failed: • Error while executing script- Subquery returned more than 1 value. This is not permitted when the subquery follows =, !=, <, <= , >, >= or when the subquery is used as an…
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"Alert Migration Failed"
After my last upgrade to Orion 2019.2 (and probably a few versions before this and I just ignored this message,) I see an error that three of my alerts could not be migrated. They are disabled but I'd like to just delete them so the error doesn't show up next time. How do I delete and/or fix these alerts?
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Upgrade to 2019.4.1: Configuration wizard problem
Hello to the THWACK community, I am currently having trouble upgrading from SAM 6.7.1 (Orion Platform 2018.4 HF3) to SAM 2019.4.1 The actual software install seems to go fine, but a problem arises during the configuration wizard. I get to this point, and the wizard hangs and runs transactions continually on the DB until…
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Upgrade Path from SolarWinds Product Advisor and Need Suggestions
Hello Experts, Question 1: We need suggestions: We are planning for an upgrade, following are the current status and results from SolarWinds Upgrade Advisor, Current Environment: Orion Server MPE, MS Windows Server 2016, .NET 4.8 DB Server, MS Windows Server 2012 R2, SQL Server 2016 SP2 APE Server, MS Windows Server 2016,…
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Dev Assisted Upgrades for our next release
Hey everybody, we are nearing completion on the next big release of Orion products and we need volunteers to participate in Dev Assisted Upgrades It’s that time again! SolarWinds Orion Dev-Assisted Upgrades are here!
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Dev Assisted Upgrades for our next release
Hey everybody, we are nearing completion on the next big release of Orion products and we need volunteers to participate in Dev Assisted Upgrades It’s that time again! SolarWinds Orion Dev-Assisted Upgrades are here!
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Success with Centralized Upgrades
Yesterday, I completed my upgrade the Orion 2018.4 HF2 platform, along with upgrades to Web Performance Monitor (formerly SeUM) , SRM, SCM, NPM, DPAIM, NTA, Server & Application Monitor, and NetPath. This was my first upgrade with the new centralized upgrade tool and I'm very happy with the results. I would consider my…