Can we run fail over ourselves without needing the SolarWinds Failover...
We have been planning and preparing for setting up our SolarWinds Failover engine installation. We have our primary SolarWinds server as well as our secondary server setup and ready to go. We built...
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...
View ArticleFOE Knowledge Base upgrad steps don't work
I just got finished wasting another 5 hours attempting to upgrade Orion NPM on a FOE arrangement. Let me first state that I followed KB 1480 to the letter, that is up to the point that it made no...
View ArticleHow to handle two NIC issue when installing FOE in AWS? - URGENT Please!!!
We are planning to deploy SolarWinds stack (NPM, NTA, SAM etc.) in AWS and would like to install FOE in AWS. Based on the documentation of FOE, its mentioned that we need to have two NIC cards to...
View ArticleFoE on addtional polling engine
Completed an install of FoE on a second polling engine. When I set the secondary server to become active everything went as planned except the polling engine thought it's IP address was that of the...
View ArticleFoE - failover updating DNS entry for primary server - can we use an alias...
Hi all,We're working through the FoE setup at the moment using the WAN option with active system in one data center and our DR system in another data center. Obviously with the WAN setup you cannot...
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 Articlewhat is the role of DNS in FoE DR installation and how can I avoid using it
Hican someone explain the above.what does the FoE has to do with the DNS?how can I skip the DNS part during the installation if I dont want it ? thanksShani
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 ArticleFailover 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....
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Failover 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 ArticleCan a FoE be installed on a polling engine?
Hi guys,I have a design question and can’t find an answer in the docs. I see that the latest NPM can be stacked or installed multiple times on a single Windows platform and this could obviously save...
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 ArticleFailover to Secondary Server when Primary Shuts Down.
HelloI currently have 2 servers setup with FoE in WAN configuration, the servers are working and if I remove the network cables from the Primary server the Secondary Server becomes Active.The problem I...
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 ArticleAfter initial install "Sweep Synchronize" stuck at "MetaBase.xml"
After completing the install on the first pair of servers in our environment the system started to synchronize. I figured it would take a while so I left it and returned 12 hours later to find that the...
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 ArticleFOE Knowledge Base upgrad steps don't work
I just got finished wasting another 5 hours attempting to upgrade Orion NPM on a FOE arrangement. Let me first state that I followed KB 1480 to the letter, that is up to the point that it made no...
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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