Orion 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 ArticleSolarWinds Failover with Infoblox DNS
Wish to know if anyone has implemented SolarWinds Failover with Infoblox DNS before. If yes, I appreciate if you could share some pointers.
View ArticleWAN Public IP blockage
I have the FOE server setup and replicating. I have tested it and it is working great. However I need to setup split brain avoidance. In order to do so, I want to ping the public IP of the Primary and...
View ArticleNEW FoE Upgrade Documentation available
Hello folks, this is the SolarWinds Doc Lady with updates on FoE Upgrade docs! We now have three great guides, tested and reviewed hard by the Geeks and SMEs.You can find all upgrade guides for all...
View ArticleRetry installation on secondary server
Hello,My first attempt at installing FoE failed on the secondary server (I missed the part about not using NIC teaming). I'm doing a P2P install in a WAN configuration. I ended up having to the...
View ArticleDisaster Recovery Site Licenses
I would like to know what are disaster recovery site licenses. Is it another version of Failover Engine? Thanks
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 ArticleSolarWinds Failover with Infoblox DNS
Wish to know if anyone has implemented SolarWinds Failover with Infoblox DNS before. If yes, I appreciate if you could share some pointers.
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 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 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....
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 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 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 ArticleCan I speed up the actual failover process?
More specifically, can I speed up the time DNS takes to update it's records so that the failover is less visible.I'm looking to see if there are any switches one can use with nfcmd.exe when FoE goes...
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Invalid License. No available License for FOE
After try to execute a Test to Switch-Over, this one took too much time to complete and finally fail… But after this fail, on both servers Primary and Secondary are transmitting packets to LAN trough...
View ArticleDisaster Recovery Site Licenses
I would like to know what are disaster recovery site licenses. Is it another version of Failover Engine? Thanks
View ArticleFoE 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...
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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 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...
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