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  • 1.  how to set up a second data_engine probe in UIM 8.2 on primary HUB to point to an old Nimsoft database for historical data.

    Posted Sep 23, 2015 06:35 AM

    instead of upgrading the main servers on our current nimsoft setup we have built new windows 2012 and SQL 2012 for the main HUB, UMP and Database server, we will then upgrade the secondary HUBS. but we need to be able to access historical data from the old database for reports. The old database is very large and for some reason has not been deleting old data so this is why we have built a new one.



  • 2.  Re: how to set up a second data_engine probe in UIM 8.2 on primary HUB to point to an old Nimsoft database for historical data.

    Posted Sep 23, 2015 12:37 PM

    Not sure if it's that simple to have a secondary data_engine pointing to a database containing information of another domain than the data_engine is in itself. Then again, it might be that's not a problem and you just need to configure DB authentication and address on it. I'd be very careful with that though, just in case.

     

    I'm not sure how having that data_engine would alleviate any reporting needs. All IDs will reset for all objects in your database (qos, robot, device, ci, etc) and they wont match to what you have in your old database. Moreover, data_engine itself doesn't really handly reporting or provide access for components that do: usually it just gives the connection string for other components.

     

    What kind of reports are you looking to have from your old DB?

     

    -jon



  • 3.  Re: how to set up a second data_engine probe in UIM 8.2 on primary HUB to point to an old Nimsoft database for historical data.

    Posted Sep 23, 2015 12:44 PM

    many thanks for the reply Jon, Its mainly SLA reports that we run for our customers against URLS that we host for their services so they can see up time and response times etc, they usually like quarterly reports with historical data going back. when we move to the new servers and the new database we still want to be able to run these reports for our customers.



  • 4.  Re: how to set up a second data_engine probe in UIM 8.2 on primary HUB to point to an old Nimsoft database for historical data.

    Posted Sep 23, 2015 01:54 PM

    SLA numbers are easy to get directly from the database. It sounds to me that the best option in your case would be to just shift over to the new domain and get the numbers from the db directly.

     

    -jon



  • 5.  Re: how to set up a second data_engine probe in UIM 8.2 on primary HUB to point to an old Nimsoft database for historical data.

    Posted Sep 23, 2015 02:37 PM

    the problem we have and the reason why we built and new nimsoft database is because our current database seems to have been corrupt in some way, is not deleting out old data and is currently over 2TB in size and running really slow. so the new installation is running on a new database and ill slowly be upgrading the other hubs and moving them over to the new build and getting them to report to the new primary hub. But we would like to some how get the historical data from the old database.