First 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 ArticleError Message: The semaphore timeout period has expired.
I am attempting to update an Additional Polling Engine. I am currently using Solarwinds Orion Core 2016.1 and need to move up to Solarwinds Orion Core 2016.2. Error Message:...
View ArticleQuestion of Hot Standby Engine
Our customer want to know the following Hot Standby Engine issue. Now, they tried to write the operational documentaion for their environment(NPM v10.0) and they need some informaion for it. 1. Hot...
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...
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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 ArticleAdditional engine ip change
i have re ip'd my addional polling engine, it is passing the information back to main server ok, but in admin/pollng engines it is still listing the old ip, thus when i try to do a "list resources"...
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 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 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 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 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 ArticleWhich IP addresses should be in the Engines table when running FoE/WAN
Hey guys, I've just finished implementing FoE in our 1xCore & 8 APEs environment and noticed something that seemed odd to me. All servers have 2 NICs, one with dns and all the bells 'n whistles and...
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 Articleis FoE create trouble when upgrading to NPM 12.
I would write to get info regarding FoE, is it create trouble when upgrade to NPM 12. Would appreciate if anyone could reply or share their experience or thoughts. regards,MAK
View ArticleFoE and MSSQL Reporting Service
Good afternoon folks,I'm working on my first Solarwinds deployment. I'm having trouble getting one of my nodes to switch over via the failover engine. Let me tell you a bit about our topology: One...
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...
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SolarWinds 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 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 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...
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