Automatic Schedule Migration: It will be necessary to accept the scheduling migration question that is presented when opening the Scan Jobs page in the Console for the first time (after upgrade). This must be completed before you can begin using the Console.

Learning New Concepts: Some time must be spent on becoming familiar with new concepts. Such as those introduced in Concept Changes – Storage Reporter to Console.

How to Proceed
– Contact the Support team to request a password protected download link for the current General Deployment version of NSS.

– Contact the Support team to learn more about how your current working processes should be changed to take advantage of new capabilities following upgrade. Be prepared to describe how you are using NSS today; the business problems it is being used to solve.

Automatic Migration: After the upgrade to 9.90+ is completed, it will be necessary to accept the scheduling migration question that is presented when opening the Scan Jobs page in the Console for the first time (after upgrade). This must be completed before you can begin using the Console.

Learning New Concepts: Some time must be spent on becoming familiar with new concepts. Such as those introduced in Concept Changes – Storage Reporter to Console.

How to Proceed
– Contact the Support team to request a password protected download link for both NSS 9.7 SR6 and the current General Deployment version of NSS.

– Contact the Professional Services team if you wish to purchase Professional Service hours and receive direct assistance in planning and executing the upgrade.

– Contact the Support team to learn more about how your current working processes should be changed to take advantage of new capabilities following upgrade. Be prepared to describe how you are using NSS today; the business problems it is being used to solve.

• If these scripts were provided by Northern in the course of a Professional Services project, and have not been changed by yourself our your team post hand-over, then this review will be performed without charge.
• If these scripts have been developed/edited by yourself or your team, then charges may apply to this review process.

Learning New Concepts: Some time must be spent on becoming familiar with new concepts. Such as those introduced in Concept Changes – Storage Reporter to Console.

How to Proceed
– Contact the Support team in order to identify if charges will apply for your script review and to schedule the review itself.

– Contact the Professional Services team if you wish to purchase Professional Service hours and receive direct assistance in planning and executing the upgrade.

– Contact the Support team to learn more about how your current working processes should be changed to take advantage of new capabilities following upgrade. Be prepared to describe how you are using NSS today; the business problems it is being used to solve.

Script Review: It will also be necessary for Northern staff to review the version dependency of your script integrations prior to upgrade.

• If these scripts were provided by Northern in the course of a Professional Services project, and have not been changed by yourself our your team post hand-over, then this review will be performed without charge.
• If these scripts have been developed/edited by yourself or your team, then charges may apply to this review process.

Learning New Concepts: Some time must be spent on becoming familiar with new concepts. Such as those introduced in Concept Changes – Storage Reporter to Console.

How to Proceed
– Contact the Professional Services team in order to identify if charges will apply for your script review and to schedule the review itself.

– Contact the Professional Services team if you wish to purchase Professional Service hours and receive direct assistance in planning and executing the upgrade.

– Contact the Support team to learn more about how your current working processes should be changed to take advantage of new capabilities following upgrade. Be prepared to describe how you are using NSS today; the business problems it is being used to solve.

• All Host Scan configurations will be automatically migrated to new concepts, becoming Scan Jobs, Scan Functions, and Function Columns where applicable.
• All Scheduled Report configurations must be manually recreated within the Console.

Establish a Web Server: It will be necessary to add an NSS Console Server to your deployment if one does not already exist (see Deployment Topologies and System Requirements for more information). It may be possible to apply this role to an existing Scanning Server, if this Scanning Server has sufficient resources (CPU, RAM).

Automatic Migration: After the upgrade to 9.90+ is completed, it will be necessary to accept the scheduling migration question that is presented when opening the Scan Jobs page in the Console for the first time (after upgrade). This must be completed before you can begin using the Console.

Learning New Concepts: Some time must be spent on becoming familiar with new concepts. Such as those introduced in Concept Changes – Storage Reporter to Console.

How to Proceed
– Contact the Support team to request a password protected download link for the current General Deployment version of NSS.

– Contact the Professional Services team if you wish to purchase Professional Service hours and receive direct assistance in planning and executing the upgrade.

– Contact the Support team to learn more about how your current working processes should be changed to take advantage of new capabilities following upgrade. Be prepared to describe how you are using NSS today; the business problems it is being used to solve.

• All Host Scan configurations will be automatically migrated to new concepts, becoming Scan Jobs, Scan Functions, and Function Columns where applicable.
• All Scheduled Report configurations must be manually recreated within the Console.

Interim Upgrade: It will be necessary to upgrade one of the NSS Scanning Servers in your deployment to 9.7 SR6, before then upgrading all servers to 9.90+.

Establish a Web Server: It will be necessary to add an NSS Console Server to your deployment if one does not already exist (see Deployment Topologies and System Requirements for more information). It may be possible to apply this role to an existing Scanning Server, if it has sufficient resources (CPU, RAM).

Automatic Migration: After the upgrade to 9.90+ is completed, it will be necessary to accept the scheduling migration question that is presented when opening the Scan Jobs page in the Console for the first time (after upgrade). This must be completed before you can begin using the Console.

Learning New Concepts: Some time must be spent on becoming familiar with new concepts. Such as those introduced in Concept Changes – Storage Reporter to Console.

How to Proceed
– Contact the Support team to request a password protected download link for both NSS 9.7 SR6 and the current General Deployment version of NSS.

– Contact the Professional Services team if you wish to purchase Professional Service hours and receive direct assistance in planning and executing the upgrade.

– Contact the Support team to learn more about how your current working processes should be changed to take advantage of new capabilities following upgrade. Be prepared to describe how you are using NSS today; the business problems it is being used to solve.

• All Host Scan configurations will be automatically migrated to new concepts, becoming Scan Jobs, Scan Functions, and Function Columns where applicable.
• All Scheduled Report configurations must be manually recreated within the Console.

Establish a Web Server: It will be necessary to add an NSS Console Server to your deployment if one does not already exist (see Deployment Topologies and System Requirements for more information). It may be possible to apply this role to an existing Scanning Server, if it has sufficient resources (CPU, RAM).

Script Review: It will also be necessary for Northern staff to review the version dependency of your script integrations prior to upgrade.

• If these scripts were provided by Northern in the course of a Professional Services project, and have not been changed by yourself our your team post hand-over, then this review will be performed without charge.
• If these scripts have been developed/edited by yourself or your team, then charges may apply to this review process.

Automatic Migration: After the upgrade to 9.90+ is completed, it will be necessary to accept the scheduling migration question that is presented when opening the Scan Jobs page in the Console for the first time (after upgrade). This must be completed before you can begin using the Console.

Learning New Concepts: Some time must be spent on becoming familiar with new concepts. Such as those introduced in Concept Changes – Storage Reporter to Console.

How to Proceed
– Contact the Professional Services team in order to identify if charges will apply for your script review and to schedule the review itself.

– Contact the Professional Services team if you wish to purchase Professional Service hours and receive direct assistance in planning and executing the upgrade.

– Contact the Support team to learn more about how your current working processes should be changed to take advantage of new capabilities following upgrade. Be prepared to describe how you are using NSS today; the business problems it is being used to solve.

• All Host Scan configurations will be automatically migrated to new concepts, becoming Scan Jobs, Scan Functions, and Function Columns where applicable.
• All Scheduled Report configurations must be manually recreated within the Console.

Establish a Web Server: It will be necessary to add an NSS Console Server to your deployment if one does not already exist (see Deployment Topologies and System Requirements for more information). It may be possible to apply this role to an existing Scanning Server, if this Scanning Server has sufficient resources (CPU, RAM).

Interim Upgrade: It will be necessary to upgrade one of the NSS Scanning Servers in your deployment to 9.7 SR6, before then upgrading all servers to 9.90+.

Script Review: It will also be necessary for Northern staff to review the version dependency of your script integrations prior to upgrade.

• If these scripts were provided by Northern in the course of a Professional Services project, and have not been changed by yourself our your team post hand-over, then this review will be performed without charge.
• If these scripts have been developed/edited by yourself or your team, then charges may apply to this review process.

Automatic Migration: After the upgrade to 9.90+ is completed, it will be necessary to accept the scheduling migration question that is presented when opening the Scan Jobs page in the Console for the first time (after upgrade). This must be completed before you can begin using the Console.

Learning New Concepts: Some time must be spent on becoming familiar with new concepts. Such as those introduced in Concept Changes – Storage Reporter to Console.

How to Proceed
– Contact the Professional Services team in order to identify if charges will apply for your script review and to schedule the review itself.

– Contact the Professional Services team if you wish to purchase Professional Service hours and receive direct assistance in planning and executing the upgrade.

– Contact the Support team to learn more about how your current working processes should be changed to take advantage of new capabilities following upgrade. Be prepared to describe how you are using NSS today; the business problems it is being used to solve.

• Web Server. It will be necessary to add an NSS Console Server to your deployment if one does not already exist.
• Scanning Server(s). It will be necessary to add one or more NSS Scanning Servers to your deployment if these do not already exist.
• Database Server. It will be necessary to create two new databases on an existing or new Microsoft SQL Server that is accessible to the NSS Scanning Servers and the NSS Console Server. Scanning/view configurations and results from all scanning operations will be stored in these databases.

See Deployment Topologies and System Requirements for more information.

Learning New Concepts: Some time must be spent on becoming familiar with new concepts. Such as those introduced in Concept Changes – Storage Reporter to Console.

How to Proceed
– Contact the Support team to request a password protected download link for the current General Deployment version of NSS.

– Contact the Professional Services team if you wish to purchase Professional Service hours and receive direct assistance in planning and executing the upgrade.

– Contact the Support team to learn more about how your current working processes should be changed to take advantage of new capabilities following upgrade. Be prepared to describe how you are using NSS today; the business problems it is being used to solve.

How to Proceed
– Contact the Support team to request a password protected download link for the current General Deployment version of NSS.

– Contact the Support team to learn more about how the reporting capabilities of NSS could benefit your organization; ensure you are not missing out on the full value of your investment.