Network Management

Files to Migrate for NCM when Reinstalling NCM on a New Server

Lists the files you need to migrate when reinstalling the Network Configuration Manager (NCM) on a new server including config archive, scripts, reports, device command templates, and jobs.

First published date

11/29/2018 10:29 PM

Last published date

11/29/2018 10:29 PM

Overview

While the application holds majority of the settings in the database, there are some local files kept on the server which need to be moved (copied) to a new server.
After installing the application and licensing the new server, do the following steps to migrate NCM to a new server environment:

Product section

Network Configuration Manager

Resolution

Config Archive 

***Note***

For backup purposes this is a critical folder.  This folder does not need to be migrated for NCM use.  This is the text backup of the configurations for nodes that have been backed up.  Recommendation this folder is backed up and kept on a resource for disaster recovery and not migrated to the new NCM server as this file can get quite large over time.

  1. Go to C:\Program Files\SolarWinds\Orion\NCM
  2. Look for the Config-Archive folder and copy all of the files in the folder to a disaster recovery storage

 

Scripts

  1. Go to C:\Program Files\SolarWinds\Orion\NCM. 
  2. Look for the Scripts folder and copy all of the files in the folder to the new server. 
  3. Go to C:\Program Files\SolarWinds\Orion\NCM. 
  4. Paste the copied files into the Scripts folder.

 

Reports (NCM 7.4 and after these are read only)

NCM 7.3.2 and before

  1. Go to C:\Program Files\SolarWinds\Orion\NCM. 
  2. Look for the Reports folder and copy all of the files in the folder to the new server(s) in the event of multiple pollers (NCM 7.2.2 - NCM 7.3.2)
  3. Go to C:\Program Files\SolarWinds\Orion\NCM.
  4. Paste the copied files into the Reports folder on each Orion Poller

 

Device Command Templates (NCM 7.4 these are stored in the Database and will not need to be migrated)

  1. Go to C:\Program Files\SolarWinds\Orion\NCM. 
  2. Look for the DeviceTypes folder and copy all of the files in the folder to the new server(s) in the event of multiple pollers (NCM 7.2.2 - NCM 7.3.2)
  3. Go to C:\Program Files\SolarWinds\Orion\NCM.
  4. Paste the copied files into the DeviceTypes folder on each poller

 

Notes:

  1. On the 64-bit version of Windows, the default installation location is C:\Program Files (x86)\SolarWinds\Orion\NCM.
  2. The common Orion Platform aspects of the server migration can be found in the Orion Server Migration  document.