Moving ADAudit Plus from one server/drive to another

 

• Stop the ADAudit Plus server (Start → Run → type services.msc → Stop "ManageEngine ADAudit Plus" ).
• Stop the DB,
  Open a command prompt as an administrator
  Navigate to <installation dir>\ManageEngine\ADAudit Plus\bin
  Execute StopDB.bat
• Remove the ADAudit Plus service,
  Open a command prompt as an administrator
  Navigate to <installation dir>\ManageEngine\ADAudit Plus\bin
  Execute the command : wrapper.exe -r ..\conf\wrapper.conf
  Note: The 4th step found below, is required only for build numbers 6000 and above.
• Remove the ADAudit Plus - DataEngine service,
  Open a command prompt as an administrator
  Navigate to <installation dir>\ManageEngine\ADAudit Plus\apps\dataengine-xnode\bin
  Execute the command : dataengine-xnode.bat -r
• Copy the entire ADAudit Plus folder to the new server or drive.
• Ensure both folder sizes are the same.
• Open the command prompt [with Administrative privileges] <installation-directory>\ManageEngine\ADAudit Plus\bin → Execute InstallNTService.bat.</installation-directory>
• Open the command prompt [as an administrator]\ManageEngine\ADAudit Plus\bin → Execute initPgsql.bat.
• If you want to start the product as service, go to Services.msc → 'ManageEngine ADAudit Plus' Service → Right click on properties → Click on 'Log on' tab and select 'This Account' → Provide the suitable credentials.

Note: If you are using MS SQL server as your database and if the MS SQL server is running in a remote computer- Download and install SQL native client, command line utilities, and ODBC Driver; in the computer on which ADAudit Plus is running.

SQL Server version	Command Line Utilities (cmdlnutils)	Native Client (ncli)	ODBC Driver (odbc)
2008	https://www.microsoft.com/en-in/download/details.aspx?id=44272	https://www.microsoft.com/en-in/download/details.aspx?id=44272	Not needed.
2012	https://www.microsoft.com/en-in/download/details.aspx?id=36433	https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=50402	Not needed.
2014	https://www.microsoft.com/en-US/download/details.aspx?id=53164	Not needed.	https://www.microsoft.com/en-in/download/details.aspx?id=36434
2016, 2017, and 2019	https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=56833	Not needed.	https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=56833

Note: Native client, command line utilities, and ODBC driver versions have to be the same as the MS SQL version (to which the DB and/or data is to be moved).
Note: If you want to change the location of the archived files as well, kindly contact support.