I've got an Orion server running NPM 10.6 (only module) on Server 2003 SP2 x86. I can't upgrade NPM past the current version along with other issues with SSL, etc. It needs to go. I just finished building a shiny new Server 2012 R2 for its new home. The DB is on another server that doesn't need an upgrade. For the new Orion server, I want to change over to the old hostname and IP, so I'll have less reconfiguration. I think I have a pretty good idea of how I need to go about it, but would like a second opinion if possible.
Here's my current plan (mostly using this as a reference):
- Backup SQL DB for good measure
- Stop/disable Solarwinds Orion processes on old server
- Swap IPs and hostnames of servers
- Install and configure NPM 10.7 on the new server (according to this post I will need to go from 10.6 to 10.7 to 11.5.x, so I'm hoping I can skip one of the upgrades as I install on the new server)
- migrate license and confirm everything is working
- upgrade to 11.5.2 (currently the newest version)
Anything I'm missing? I'm hoping I won't have to do any of the reassigning nodes since I'm swapping IPs and hostnames. Any advice would be appreciated.