I've got numerous Solarwinds programs, between NPM, SAM, UDT, IPAM, NTA, and VM as well as numerous polling engines. When it comes time to upgrading software I would love to have an upgrade path provided so I know what apps / servers should be upgraded first. In other words, a tool that can either A) grab my active licenses to see what I have paid for, and look at what versions are installed and then provide a path for upgrade or B) manually plug in my SolarWinds product versions installed and provide path.
The path I am suggesting would look something like this -
- Upgrade NPM on primary polling engine from version 10.7 to 11.0 using http:// link to download NPM 11.0
- Upgrade SAM on primary polling engine from version 6.0 to 6.2 using http:// link to download SAM
- Upgrade NTA on primary polling engine from version 4 to 4.02 using http://
- Upgrade NTA DB server --- blah blah
- Upgrade Additional Polling Engine 1-8 using http:// link for additional polling engine package
- Upgrade Additional Webserver using http://
- Upgrade EOC using http://
This would ensure I am installing the correct updates in the correct order for my monitoring platform.