FOE 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 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 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...
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...
View ArticleFailover Engine and data/application protection
Hello,I have a Solarwinds NCM 7.1.1 working with Orion Failover Engine 6.7 on two nodes (primary and secondary). I have to show my client a few tests which include data/application protection.My...
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 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 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 ArticleBasic Fail Over Engine question.- Starting services
I have a basic question that I have run into while installing the FoE. Hopefully this is simple for some of the experts.My question is about failing over the engine from Primary to Secondary and back...
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...
View ArticleCommand 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.
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 ArticleNCM 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...
View ArticleWhat 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?
View ArticleQuestion about FailOver Engine and Additional Poller Engine
Hello,I have a NPM server and an additional poller engine. If I understand correctly, I must have two FOE engines to protect both engines.Is my assumption correct? Daniele
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 ArticleDoes anybody using FoE automatically manage (patching/AVG) their secondary...
Does anybody using FoE automatically manage (patching/AVG) their secondary servers? We're ready to distch FoE because our auto management systems for patching and AVG updates cannot access the...
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 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 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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