Impact of changing the ipaddress assign to the MIdserver

Insomaniac
Kilo Expert

Hi Expert,

Due to some reasons we are planning to change the ip address which is assigned to the midserver.

I need to understand the impact of this.

I had analyze that if we do this we will lose the ip based authentication in the devices. But apart from this what will be the other impact of this.

 

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Dave Ainsworth
ServiceNow Employee
ServiceNow Employee

Hi Insomniac,

Just to check, is this the IP address assigned to the host where the MID server is installed? Or the IP ranges assigned to a MID server in ServiceNow? Or IP addresses of devices being discovered?

Changing the IP address of the MID server host should not impact discovery as long as the MID server can still connect to the ServiceNow instance and can see the devices it needs to discover.

Changing the IP ranges assigned to the MIDs will not impact discovery as discovery will use the IP Ranges you have defined in the discovery schedules. It would affect Service Mapping if you use this though.

Changing the IP of any devices being discovered should not impact discovery. As long as the new IP addresses are in the Discovery Schedule IP Ranges/Range Sets and the MID servers can access them, the devices will still get discovered. In the OOTB identification rules, other identification rules such as serial number have a higher priority and the devices will still be identified and updated even with a new IP address.

Regards,

Dave

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Thanks David.

 

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