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Re: In-place poller upgrade from 2008 R2 to 2012 - any gotchas?
mharvey Dec 17, 2014 12:53 PM (in response to rharland2012)Last time I've had to upgrade the OS I had to reinstall Orion. I don't know if it was due to how the upgrade ran or what, but while the file system was still there, Programs and Features had no indication of SolarWinds.
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Re: In-place poller upgrade from 2008 R2 to 2012 - any gotchas?
rharland2012Dec 17, 2014 1:09 PM (in response to mharvey)
Oh, man.....that doesn't sound fun at all.
Thanks for the information. Were you going from 2008 to 2012?
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Re: In-place poller upgrade from 2008 R2 to 2012 - any gotchas?
mharvey Dec 17, 2014 1:14 PM (in response to rharland2012)1 of 1 people found this helpfulI think we were moving from 2008 to R2, which may have been the cause.
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Re: In-place poller upgrade from 2008 R2 to 2012 - any gotchas?
rharland2012Dec 17, 2014 1:38 PM (in response to mharvey)
Thanks for the info!
I might take a snap, shut down the box, make a clone, try the upgrade on the clone and see what happens....if it blows up, I'll just back out of the room quietly and revert to a snap.
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Re: In-place poller upgrade from 2008 R2 to 2012 - any gotchas?
RichardLettsDec 18, 2014 11:08 AM (in response to rharland2012)
if your server is running on vmware, which implies that you have your SW database on another server
why not
a) build a shiny new 2012 server
b) shutdown the old solarwinds vm image...
c) install products on the new server pointing at the old database
d) move the licenses.
I'm not a fan of in-place upgrades for windows; there always seems to be some cruft left behind.
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Re: In-place poller upgrade from 2008 R2 to 2012 - any gotchas?
rharland2012Dec 18, 2014 1:14 PM (in response to RichardLetts)
Good point. I may do that....
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Re: In-place poller upgrade from 2008 R2 to 2012 - any gotchas?
rharland2012Dec 29, 2014 2:27 PM (in response to RichardLetts)
Attempted an in-place upgrade to a clone and everything looked okay, but half of the SW services wouldn't start. Bogus dependency failures, etc.
Guess I'll have to do it the new-build way after all. My main gripe is having to re-install all of the modules...that takes a while!
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Re: In-place poller upgrade from 2008 R2 to 2012 - any gotchas?
mharvey Dec 29, 2014 2:59 PM (in response to rharland2012)Indeed it does, but I think it's more due to the OS upgrade than anything SolarWinds can do.
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Re: In-place poller upgrade from 2008 R2 to 2012 - any gotchas?
rharland2012Dec 29, 2014 3:04 PM (in response to mharvey)
Agreed! What, we're not allowed to complain about silly stuff anymore?
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Re: In-place poller upgrade from 2008 R2 to 2012 - any gotchas?
mharvey Dec 29, 2014 3:25 PM (in response to rharland2012)By all means complain away...I've got nothing against it.... or do I?
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Re: In-place poller upgrade from 2008 R2 to 2012 - any gotchas?
rharland2012Dec 29, 2014 3:33 PM (in response to mharvey)
!!!!!!!.....MIND BLOWN
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Re: In-place poller upgrade from 2008 R2 to 2012 - any gotchas?
RichardLettsDec 29, 2014 3:37 PM (in response to rharland2012)
I find that it takes less time to re-install all of the additional polling engines for four products than for Solarwinds Technical support to answer the phone.
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Re: In-place poller upgrade from 2008 R2 to 2012 - any gotchas?
rharland2012Dec 29, 2014 3:40 PM (in response to RichardLetts)
Cheeky!
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Re: In-place poller upgrade from 2008 R2 to 2012 - any gotchas?
mharvey Dec 29, 2014 3:53 PM (in response to RichardLetts)POW!!!!! And the ref takes a point away lol
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Re: In-place poller upgrade from 2008 R2 to 2012 - any gotchas?
rharland2012Dec 30, 2014 12:21 PM (in response to RichardLetts)
I assume I'll want to deactivate the licenses on the old box before I shut it down, correct?
Thanks again!
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Re: In-place poller upgrade from 2008 R2 to 2012 - any gotchas?
mharvey Dec 30, 2014 12:30 PM (in response to rharland2012)Your assumption is correct.
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Re: In-place poller upgrade from 2008 R2 to 2012 - any gotchas?
rharland2012Dec 30, 2014 12:58 PM (in response to mharvey)
First time in my life....
Thank you!
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Re: In-place poller upgrade from 2008 R2 to 2012 - any gotchas?
mharvey Dec 30, 2014 1:04 PM (in response to rharland2012)I know what you mean. I'm married....that means I assume usually means I'm wrong but don't want to admit it (thankfully my wife is not a thwack member or I'd be dead soon).
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Re: In-place poller upgrade from 2008 R2 to 2012 - any gotchas?
rharland2012Jan 5, 2015 7:54 AM (in response to RichardLetts)
Any difference in how you'd approach this if you want the new server to have the same IP/name as the old one?
For simplicity's sake, I'd like to leave all the pieces in place that allow the IP of our poller/web box to talk to our stuff, so I want the upgraded server to at least have the same IP as the old (and probably the name for documentation's sake, too).
I can't think of any big differences here...just mulling over my chronology. Take old server offline, rename/address the new box, install the stuff, point it to the DB, move licenses, etc.
Of course, I'll have to deactivate the licenses on the old box first, won't I?
Boy, it goes to show you how rusty stuff can get when you don't do it very often!
Thanks for any info.
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Re: In-place poller upgrade from 2008 R2 to 2012 - any gotchas?
mharvey Jan 5, 2015 8:05 AM (in response to rharland2012)Not really. We did that ourselves here. However rather than rename things first, we did it after the upgrade and migration. After the upgrade, once we were ready to kiss the old server goodbye, we moved it to a dynamic IP and shut it down, then changed the IP on the new server, updated DNS and restarted.
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Re: In-place poller upgrade from 2008 R2 to 2012 - any gotchas?
rharland2012Jan 5, 2015 8:24 AM (in response to mharvey)
Thanks for that info! Was your server a combo web/poller box, or were these separate entities for you?
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Re: In-place poller upgrade from 2008 R2 to 2012 - any gotchas?
mharvey Jan 5, 2015 8:29 AM (in response to rharland2012)It was our main poller/web server. We also added a secondary polling server as well. The biggest gotcha for us was to rerun the config wizard and change a couple of settings I had in the Websites table when I had bound the IP for the website.
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