Current environment, HP SIM v7.6 on Windows Server 2008R2, database on SQL Server 2012.
This was upgraded from HP SIM v7.2 and SQL Server 2008 by upgrading to v7.3, then v7.5 and finally v7.6. The database was then moved from SQL Server 2008 to SQL Server 2012. The system appears to be running fine, meeting expectations monitoring hundreds of Windows and Linux servers in a heavily virtualized environment.
The next step is getting to Windows Server 2012 and off Windows Server 2008.
We tried a fresh install of HP SIM v7.6 on WIndows Server 2012 with a different name and IP address which created a new HP SIM database. The fresh install was pointed to the previous database, but no tasks came across. The tasks were recovered by importing from an export of tasks and changing the owners of the tasks. A couple event driven tasks could not be imported because the associated collections were not found. The lack of the event driven monitoring forced a fallback to the previous server, using the same database. Things are fine now back on tge Windows Server 2008.
Because of networking requirements with the new virtualization cluster, the new server must have a new IP address.
The new plan is to perform a mxexport on the existing Windows Server 2008, perform a fresh install of V7.6 on Windows Server 2012 to a new database, import the export from Windows Server 2008 and test with both systems active.. Once testing shows success, change the CNAME record for the trap ID and update systems with hardcoded trap IP addresses. and update firewall rules to reflect the new IP address/name. Then shut the Windows Server 2008 down..
Comments, suggestions, are these the right steps, what are we missing here, ANYTHING!? THANKS for your feedback.