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High Availability Beta - Included as Part of SAM 6.3 Beta
High Availability RequirementsPrimary Server InstallSecondary Server InstallCluster Pool Creation The SAM 6.3 Beta includes a first glimpse into an entirely new and fully integrated high availability...
View ArticleFOE install on secondary erases product key
This is my second install of FOE and every time we've started out with primary and secondary servers properly registered with the correct Microsoft product key. However, during the installation of FOE...
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Additional 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 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 ArticleFoE - Help us Help You
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...
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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...
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FOE with same Host Name
I have to implement FOE with two different host name. Pl help me to give me the workaround for the same. I am running NPM at my location. I can not put two hostname same in in one single domain.
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 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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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...
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Solarwinds 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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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...
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High Availability Beta - Included as Part of SAM 6.3 Beta
High Availability RequirementsPrimary Server InstallSecondary Server InstallCluster Pool Creation The SAM 6.3 Beta includes a first glimpse into an entirely new and fully integrated high availability...
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 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 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...
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Torture Testing High Availability
A few of you have asked for test failover scenarios for High Availability you can try using the beta. Below I outline a few that can be tested in Beta 1. There will be additional testing scenarios...
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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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...
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FOE 6.7 and NPM 11.5.3 and NCM 7.4.1
Has anyone tried running with FOE on the newest NPM and NCM versions.
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