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Failover 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...

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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...

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How does upgrading SolarWinds apps work with FoE?

I am unable to find any mention at all in the FoE documentation of how to approach the upgrade of SolarWinds applications in an environment that has FoE. Does the heartbeat take care of the differences...

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NCM 7.1.1, Additional Polling Engine, and FoE (Addtl Polling Engine License)

I made a post in the NCM forum for a bug discovered while working SW support.  It effects FOE installs on an additional polling engine with the NCM additional polling engine compoenets installed.  I...

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Advice on US/UK FoE deployment

We have two Orion servers, one in the US and the other in the UK.  These are currently running independently.  We are looking to use FoE to configure the UK server as the primary active system, with...

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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...

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FoE SAN Compatibility

I had open a case with SolarWinds support with the following question "I’m about to install the FoE (P2P) on servers that I use a SAN drive for the Orion installation. Are there any issues with using...

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Timetable for NCM 7.1 additional poller + FOE support?

We've upgraded to NCM 7.1, but the additional pollers will not work with the FOE (it complains of licence violation and shuts them down). Does anyone know when NCM 7.1 additional pollers will be...

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Failover Engine Installation

Hi! Do I need to install FOE into my NPM server? And install FOE to another server? How about its license? Will I use same license for this?

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Fail 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...

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What is the difference between the active engine and its Fail-Over Engine

Once an engine and its FOE are paired is there any difference between the two. Does it matter which is the active & which the passive?

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Failover 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...

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FOE 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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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...

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Command line options for FoE

Is is possible to issue commands using commandline to FoE for switchover, start/stop services, and start/stop replication? This would help us in our patch application automation we are trying to setup.

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dnsupdate.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...

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Retry 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...

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FoE 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...

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Fail Over Engine for a Web front end only?

I was told that their is no Fail Over Engine for an additional Web Server Front End.  Is this true?

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Timetable for NCM 7.1 additional poller + FOE support?

We've upgraded to NCM 7.1, but the additional pollers will not work with the FOE (it complains of licence violation and shuts them down). Does anyone know when NCM 7.1 additional pollers will be...

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