allanseyberth

Barring anything going wrong, that's exactly what you need to do. 

As a followup, there is still a method to return to advanced alert manager, posted here in case someone else wishes to hold off until web alerts are a little better implemented. From my support ticket: "To use the switch, in the URL field, changed the syntax to "Your local host or IP of…

10-15 minutes, maybe. Depends on hardware et al. But, barring something going wrong with the OS, it is generally a very straightforward process. 

It's the central components of the Solarwinds suite : things such as the web interface, the polling engine, the sql server back end, alerts, reports et al that the individual modules such as NPM and SAM work under. A full breakdown can be found in the Core admin guide.…

Same problem occurs on an html resource. I tried using that to get around this issue to no luck.

Here's a migration document. http://www.solarwinds.com/documentation/orion/docs/OrionServerMigration.pdf It was last updated in 2011 but the process is just about the same. It becomes notably easier if you are not changing your database location. A fresh install would be best, in my opinion.