FoE and APE Scenaro across WAN question
Can anyone help me understand how FoE would perform in the following scenario? We have our main polling engine in our UK data center, and an additional polling engine (APE) in the United States. We...
View ArticleOrion Upgrades with FOE
Is there any documentation to how "Upgrades" are handled with Orion products and FOE? I have 2 situations, first is using a single SQL Server and the other with either SQL using Cluster Option or the...
View ArticleFail Over Engine is better than VMotion
All our engines are running on VMWare clients and have VMotion enabled. We currently have engines deployed across three sites, but the VMotion at each site is constrained to that site and in a site DR...
View ArticleFoE Supported Modules
I purchased FoE and I'm planning my deployment. I just read the release notes and noticed the latest supported modules for NPM and SAM are v10.5 and v5.5, respectively. Does anyone know if Solarwinds...
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Updating Windows Systems with Java 8 Update 60 Corrupts the SolarWinds...
This article provides information about installing the Java™ 8 Update 60 on Microsoft® Windows Server® systems running the SolarWinds® Orion Platform or Additional Polling Engine. IssueAfter you...
View ArticleFail Over Engine (additional license on NCM?)
Hi, just want to consult our ORION setup. Currently we have 1 NCM license and 1 NPM license. We would like to setup Disaster recovery for both NCM and NPM. Do we need to buy additional NPM and NCM...
View ArticleFoE Installation Backup restore Failure
HiI installed the FoE on Primary server successfully (install clone). When I tried to install on Secondary server I didnt pass the backup restore step. I get following error:System writer is not found...
View ArticleFOE server hostname
HI Guys,can anyone help me clarify this: 1. Will there be any impacts on my solarwinds, if I change my solarwinds server hostname. 2. For my FoE, V2V, pre-clone, do I need both machine to have the...
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Can one change the "User Details" credentials after the install?
I'm at this part of the FoE install on my primary poller but haven't been assigned the required credentials yet. Do I have to put the correct credentials in here now or can this be changed after the...
View Articlednsupdate.exe not updating dns
We've run into an interesting situation. When switching over to the primary from the secondary we noticed that the DNS isn't being updated on one pair of FoE servers. When using the dnsupdate.exe to...
View ArticleDNSUpdate won't update DNS during FailOver
I'm still building out our new environment with one core and 8 additional pollers and have noticed that DNSUpdate doesn't function. FoE is installed and seems to work fine except for the DNSUpdate...
View ArticleFoE Configuration Question
My configuration will be V2V for WAN The install guide says both the primary and secondary servers should have the same OS? Is this a recommendation or a requirement? My primary servers' OS is...
View ArticleFail Over Engine is better than VMotion
All our engines are running on VMWare clients and have VMotion enabled. We currently have engines deployed across three sites, but the VMotion at each site is constrained to that site and in a site DR...
View ArticleFailover engine - switchover works, but doesn't switch during actual failover?
So I've got 2 servers installed in LAN failover mode. NPM 10.1 with APM3.5. If I go into failover manager and do a switchover by clicking on Passive/secondary server and "Make Active", no problems it...
View ArticleAre any additional servers required for failover to work?
What are the infrastructure requirements? For example, I have a Primary Server/poller, and additional poller, an NTA Flow DB, and an Orion SQL Server. For full redundancy, I've requested a duplicate of...
View ArticleSolarwinds Orion Module Engine won't start on additional poller after FoE...
We have a core server and 8 additional polling engines. The core server was cloned using vCenter and then FoE was installed following the WAN/DR method.After the install the core server seems to be...
View ArticleFoE and Additional Poller
Hello, I am in the process of designing our new SolarWinds installation. We already have a couple of the products but have since purchased the rest (pretty much) We are having a few discussions on...
View ArticleSolarWinds FOE implementation
Hi All, We are planning to implement SolarWinds FOE in organization. We shall be using services from Neverfail technologies for SQL failover but i have one query we have constraint that our HA setup...
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Failover Engine Failing To Connect Between PRIMARY and SECONDARY
Hi All, I've recently installed Orion Failover Engine v6.7.0 - Additional Polling Engine however when I attempt to start the PRIMARY and SECONDARY nodes the service starts to shut down after a minute....
View ArticleSolarwinds Orion Module Engine won't start on additional poller after FoE...
We have a core server and 8 additional polling engines. The core server was cloned using vCenter and then FoE was installed following the WAN/DR method.After the install the core server seems to be...
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