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Upstream Orion Server

Hi,
does anybody use multiple orion servers in their network and have them all report back to one central box for alerts?
we have a core orion box with a sql 2005 backend, which does all our alert processing and checking for exceptions etc.. the problem is we monitor other sites over vpn's. ordinarily this isn't a problem but for some with low bandwidth connections we get a lot of timeouts. we want to put a separate orion box on the remote site but get the alerts back into the core orion server (or sql 2005) for processing and SMSing out.
the remote site can be running sql 2005 express.

basicly i am looking for a way of reliably sending new alerts (from the alerts table) across the internet to the core sql server (2005).
we have a separate database for alerts which locally is populated using a trigger on the alerts table in the orion database.

i guess we could potentially use sql 2005 web services, but i'm not sure about the reliability.

any help on this would be much apreciated.

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Dan.Wendeln

Rob,

At this time it is not recommended to have polling engines across a WAN from the core SQL server. SQL can be very sensitive to latency and the result can be lost data.

Best regards,

Dan Wendeln
SolarWinds.Net
Customer Support Services

FormerMember

Dan,
I was told by Support (within the last 2 months), using the Hot-Standby management Pack, with the HS system set up at a remote backup site, that the HS system could access a core SQL server across a WAN. In our case we have a GE backbone. Was I misled? We are in the process of procuring this pack now and did not plan for another SQL server.

savell

We run two polling engines, one local to the Database server, and the other polling engine at a remote Datacenter (although also across a GE backbone).
No issues at all (both are >3000 elements).

Sav.

FormerMember

Pheew!! I feel a lot better now.

Thanks for your feedback, Sav!