We don't see anywhere the old Collection jobs that we used to have in VMAN Appliance (Configuration data every 12 hrs and Performance data every 10 mints), do we have something similar in VMAN Orion?
I believe this is all handled by Orion Polling now if you have that configured. So Status is polled for every 2 minutes and Statistics are polled every 10 minutes. Data used for Recommendations, etc, are collected with the polling data. You can adjust these thresholds via the Edit Properties section when you go to Manage Nodes.
Thanks for your response.
Originally I thought the same, if we assume for now that Orion Polling settings are applicable on VMAN polling, but what about "Configuration Schedule" which used to gather any new vm's, any changes in Hosts, VMs etc .... how is this job running in VMAN Orion.
I believe some input from SolarWinds VMAN team would be helpful here.
Hello,
behavior is same like was in VMAN Appliance = every 10 minutes performance job and every 12 hours configuration job.
You can trigger it also manually, from top-level entity (vCenter, standalone esx host, hyper-v host) details page. "Poll now" will trigger performance job, "Rediscover" will trigger configuration job.
Performance job should collect all data you mentioned (new VM's, VM's changes,... ). Configuration job collects just a little more data than performance, mostly more non-dynamic data like disk files etc.
Thanks for your valuable input, so is there a way to change this intervals in Orion somewhere? in old VMAN appliance we can change it in schedules.
There is no way how to change it on website, but you can change it in database (in table VIM_PollingTasks - column PollingInterval. There is interval for each job for each node. Or you can change default polling frequency in VIM_PollingTaskTypes). But take in mind, that changing these jobs to more frequent value could have really bad impact on your VIM environment and also on vCenter.
