Documentation forSolarWinds Platform

Migrate agents from one Orion instance to another

This topic applies only to the following SolarWinds Platform products:

Hybrid Cloud Observability EssentialsHybrid Cloud Observability Advanced

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When you migrate your SolarWinds Platform server to a different computer, you may need to modify any agents that use agent-initiated communication so they communicate with the new server. Agents using server-initiated communication are migrated automatically.

If any of the following has changed, you must modify your agents:

  • IP address
  • DNS
  • Database

Modify agents to point to the new server in one of the following ways:

If you have not cloned your certificates, you must migrate them to the new server.