I have a Cold Spare server for Disaster Recovery (DR) purposes. Can I install Solarwinds Orion, Get it all configured with the 30 day evaluation, and then enter the licensing information months later when I need to use it?
If you truly want DR, then I agree you will want to check out Failover Engine, exactly what it is designed for.
No . The moment you will install Orion NPM it will start his Time bomb with evaluation period . You need to have FailOver Server for your disaster recovery .
How does the database configuration work with the Failover Engine? Our DR Database is a entirely different host name than our production database. We cannot justify the cost to have a live replicated cluster server at our DR site.
FoE does not protect the database for a many reason. Happy to discuss those if needed.
Here are some options for handling SQL. Also the company we license the technology from has an offering just for the Orion DB they sell you can read more about that here.