Our infrastructure is getting bigger everyday. In every 6 months I am being forced to buy a new polling engine license. Because single polling engine (server) supports maximum 12.000 elements (8.000 recommended). Better scalability please!
Hi Mustafa you are 100% right....
Solarwinds with the way the intergrate today different products with that nice service layer API.
Could make a very clean straightforward APE linux 64 bit virtual appliance
that
1. take much more load.
2.easy clean install (the admin can dont need to know much linux)
3.cheaper
4.the core products still stay on the same ms platforme.
It would be nice to have more scalability on a single polling engine.
I have to agree. We are licensed for unlimited monitoring but currently I am limited on how many interfaces I can monitor before performance starts degrading.
Onther way to get more elements per server is the "HP NMMi way" to do it.
That mean use SNMP TRAPS for UP/Down status and not poll for status every 2 minut.
When NMMi get a Down trap from node/interface den its doing a SNMP poll to be 100% sure.
https://thwack.solarwinds.com/ideas/4531
My additional polling engines are crashing with out of memory exceptions due to the 32-bit limits on businesslayer processes.
Apart from that limitation I'm not seeing what resource on the servers they are actually running short of.
We have 3 additional polling engines that are largely idle, but are approaching the element limits. This element limit has to be somewhat arbitrary in how SolarWinds polling databases work. Selling additional polling engines is a way to general license revenue, but as I license additional Orion modules I'm already paying for additional licenses. It seems like they are double-dipping (I add more monitor licenses with modules so I have to add more element licenses with a polling engine).
GoldTipu cobrien
Any updates from the team after 3 years in development?
There's been a lot of discussion on the "new" stacked poller license page (https://thwack.solarwinds.com/docs/DOC-190008 ) about polling rates and how it doesn't make sense that one should have to pay for another license to expand the software capabilities of Orion when the hardware it's on can handle the polling.
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NPM 12.3 supports 4x the element count of NPM 12.2. SolarWinds Network Automation Manager offers licensing by node count and includes however many polling engines are required for a specific deployment scenario. I believe that has effectively solved this feature request. If there are specific components of the ask that anyone feels aren't covered, feel free to open a new feature request that specifies them and link to it from here.
Thanks!
I went with NAM licensing for my growing network needs. I came with nearly all the SolarWinds modules I wanted, plus the ability to scale out to twenty APE's (or more?) at will.
