Docs 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 ArticleDR fail over engine not working
We are using latest fail over version for DR but not able to switch automatically or manually When I am switching Primary server to secondary server our web console/site not working When I am...
View ArticleWhat has been your experience with Failover Engine?
We here at SolarWinds are continuously looking to improve our products in both functionality and user experience. Failover Engine (FoE) as you can imagine, doesn't get a tremendous amount of feedback...
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what 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 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 ArticleHow to replicate NotePage PageGate with Orion FoE
Hi,I'm hoping someone has had experience using PageGate on a NPM/NCM/IPSLA FoE as I'm having trouble getting the PageGate database to replicate without getting "damaged".EnvironmentI have a physical...
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 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 ArticleFail Over Engine vs Hot Standby?
Has anyone come across a comparison between these two products? Given their similar function and the fact that Hot Standby seems to have been discontinued, this is the kind of thing I would have...
View ArticleFailover Engine LAN vs WAN
HiWe have 2 Data center i can run WAN or LAN to the server.Any budy try setup LAN and WAN scenario?I can understand that when you run the WAN setup there isn't 1 "public IP/DNS" to the 2 servers.Is...
View ArticleCan Failover Engines be part of domain?
We are currently running SolarWinds Orion 10.1.3 on a server that is part of our domain.We want to implement failover using SolarWinds Failover Engine v6.4.1.Our failover topology includes 2 identical...
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Failover 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 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 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...
View ArticleLoss of Private channel
We have now recieved a few loss of private channel communications on a couple of our FoE pairs. I'm given SWREFID: 992 but have not found anything with this reference ID. Also the only other event...
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...
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Additional 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"...
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Failover 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 Upgrade
I got notification from Solarwinds that FOE 6.7 was in General Availability. I currently and running FOE 6.4. I search all through the install packages documentation as well as all through the...
View ArticleFail Over Engine vs Hot Standby?
Has anyone come across a comparison between these two products? Given their similar function and the fact that Hot Standby seems to have been discontinued, this is the kind of thing I would have...
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