Decomission MidServers

Nic Omaha
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‎08-17-2023 08:04 AM

We have been on SN for almost 11 years now and have decommissioned quite a few products such as Discovery and Service Mapping. Now our infrastructure is wanting us to decommsiion a number of our mid servers as they think they are not being used. We do currently use orchestration and I know which mid-server is set to do this, and have a ldap connection to AD. I was curious if anyone had any suggestions on a approach to see what ones might be being used for something. I think we can decommission some of these old ones but trying to tread very carefully. 

 

Thanks!

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Maik Skoddow
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‎08-17-2023 08:09 AM

Hi

basically your question can only be answered by you anbd should be easily possible with the respective documentation you hopefully have.

But you are right: you really have to be careful with deleting of MID Servers as they might be used in many configurations. To be sure that they are not referenced any more I recommend using my feature 

Maik

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‎08-17-2023 08:10 AM

Hi @Nic Omaha ,

Having two mid-servers on one host and the old version is not being used but consuming space. 

  1. Find where the old MID-Server is installed
    1. Go to Run and type services.msc
    2. Find the Service called "ServiceNow MID Server"
    3. Right-click on the service and click on the Properties tab.
    4. See the "Path to be executable"
      • That is the path where the Configuration files of MID-server are stored. See the following screenshot as an example:

         

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  2. Go to the MID-Server installed folder, take a backup of the agent and wrapper logs if needed.
  3. Go to the bin folder and double-click uninstall.bat
  4. The service gets uninstalled and now you can delete the entire MID-Server folder to mitigate the space issue.

Cameron13
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‎08-18-2023 08:43 AM

Here is a strategy I used in our scenario , prepared some Mids, Created cluster ( new and old) . Obviously the new MiDs on a different place. Each Mid we were going to delete had a stand by on cluster so worst case scenario if something goes unintentional. The other will take over. 

Not sure if this will help you.

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