Hi. I've inherited the following environment and the following business requirements:
* (2) Win2k8 SP2 x86 systems (VMWare actually) running Web-Security v7.5 that uses a SQL Win2k8 R2 Enterprise backend
* we want to upgrade to at least v7.7 so that we can use Citrix Integration with XenApp 6.5 environment
Here is our (2) Websense servers are setup in terms of roles:
Win2k8 Standard / SP2 (SystemA)
- Filtering Svc
- Network Agent
- Policy Server
- Usage Monitor
- User Server
- Control Service
Win2k8 Enterprise / SP2 (SystemB)
- DC agent
- Explorer Report Scheduler
- Filtering Service
- Info Service for Explorer
- Log Server
- Network Agent
- Policy Broker
- Policy DB
- Policy Server
- Reporter scheduler
- Usage Monitor
- User Service
- Control Service
I've seen the documentation regarding using pgsetup to migrate policies to a new system, but am wondering if its worth the hassle since we have to not only upgrade to Win2k8 R2, and do an application upgrade. Perhaps its just easier to build (2) new Win2k8R2 systems, and then configure the policies from scratch? I dont think our setup is that complex so rebuilding from scratch might not be too laborious
From a DB perspective, it seems that the DB structure/schema changes from 7.6 > 7.7 and 7.8 ... however, it seems that our SQL Db has over (100) different 5.2gb DB files and the volume just continues to grow.. files such as wslogdb70_10, wslogdb70_11, etc.. all the way up to like wslogdb70_105 - surely this cant be right. Which is another reason I'm thinking that we just use a brand new DB. For legacy reporting, if we started fresh, how would we pull reporting from the 7.5 data?
Thoughts, feedback, advice? All is welcome.
Thanks!