hi forum,
my first post on the re-vamped site...
I am about to start planning for an upgrade of my solarwinds implementation. it is quite a big one, and i have not yet had a successful upgrade, every time it takes 6-12 hours to sort out, with a bunch of problems lingering for a month after. so, looking for advice, horror stories or anyone done the same sort of upgrade. this is where i am now:
software versions:
Solarwinds core - 2010.2 Sp1
NPM - 10.1.1 Sp1
APM - 3.5
IPSLA Manager - 3.5.1
NCM - 6.0
NTA - 3.7
(and looks like IVM 1.0 but i do not know what this is)
my environment is:
1 x primary NPM server
6 x Additional Pollers
1 x Additional webserver
NPM, APM, NTA and IPSLA are all installed onto primary and additional pollers
NCM resides on one of the additional pollers
questions
1. with the new release of APM, it can sit on its own poller now, but can i assume my NPM pollers still act as an APM poller if i do not want to separate them?
2. i am assuming i need to upgrade everything, starting with NPM as the other products will rely on them?
3. Solarwinds - how much have you tested this upgrade path with such an environment? i know you can not test everything, but additional poller upgrade environment always see to fail
4. are the problems with TRAP parser rules being lost solved in current versions?
cheers all for help and support
D.