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We're plugging away at some improvements we have planned for FoE and would love to get a better understanding of the environment in which you're running FoE today. If you own SolarWinds Failover...
View ArticleDocs for FoE acceptance testing
I am new to Failover Engine, and am trying to compile a "how to" document for acceptance testing. Does SolarWinds have such a concise document already? Where can I read about the types of tasks that I...
View ArticleNew additional poller with FoE
I am setting up a new additional poller to replace a corrupted poller. The additional poller I created was configured with the Orion applications and then the failover engine. I then cloned the...
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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 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 ArticleFirst time Installing FOE
Hi All, I am wondering if I can seek some clarification. I have been tasked to build a new Solarwinds environment consisting of NPM, NCM, SAM & NTA with an additional Poller with the same modules...
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...
View ArticleFirst time installing FoE, need advice please!
I am about to attempt to install FoE on two pollers and an additional web server for the first time. I know there is documentation, but since SW documentation is not always very thorough, I wanted to...
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Disaster Recovery Site Licenses
I would like to know what are disaster recovery site licenses. Is it another version of Failover Engine? Thanks
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 ArticleFailover Environment - Unique or different IPs
Hello Solarwinds Support, I’ve got a question: I’m setting up a new Solarwinds environment. I’ve bought the necessary licenses alreadyI want to use the failover engine in an 2 datacenter environment...
View ArticleCluster or Mirrored Database for failover
What are all of the options we have for fail-over and high availability. Do we go with a standby system and a mirrored DB or cluster it?
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 ArticleAdditional poller port requirements
Hello, Could someone please verify for me the below is correct in regards to port requirements for an Additional Poller. - Bidirectional communication on TCP port 17777 between the Primary NPM server...
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 ArticleInstalling *new* Applications once FOE is alreaady installed.
Morning allhttp://knowledgebase.solarwinds.com/kb/questions/1480/How+to+Upgrade+SolarWinds+Orion+when+Orion+Failover+Engine+is+Installed I've read the above link to upgrading existing applications...
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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 ArticleDR fail over engine not working
We are using latest fail over version for DR but not able to switch automatically or manually When I am switching Primary server to secondary server our web console/site not working When I am...
View ArticleFailover Engine query
What failover engine (FOE) and how it works? (Does it sends hello message) Do we need two databases for this product? Does it requires install all Orion modules in both primary and...
View ArticleHow to move FoE Secondary Server from LAN to WAN
Hi, We are using FoE to provide HA for now but we have a project to use it as DR.We can repliicate our SQL DB to WAN.We are using 2 Additional pollers and an additionel web server as well. NPM and NCM...
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