Any way to force a VMWare host to use VMAN Orion polling?

m-milligan

We have a 192-socket VMAN license. We ended up with more VMWare hosts than we anticipated and maxed out our license, which caused new VMWare hosts to be polled using basic polling. We have several standalone hosts (not monitored through a vCenter) that we switched from VMAN Orion polling to Basic polling, so we now have license sockets available. Has anyone found a way to force Solarwinds to switch a VMWare host from basic to VMAN Orion polling?

m-milligan

I was able to manually change the polling method using SWQL Studio. Here's what I did:

1. Find the URI of the ESX host you want to change using this SWQL query:
   select URI from Orion.VIM.Hosts where HostName = '<the name of the ESX host>'
2. In the Object Explorer, find Orion.VIM.Hosts.
3. Right-click on Orion.VIM.Hosts and choose "Update" from the pop-up menu. This will open a new tab, "Update - Orion.VIM.Hosts"
4. In the Value column of the SwisUri row, paste the ESX Host URI.
5. In the Value column of the PollingSource row, enter either 0 (to switch to Basic polling) or 2 (to switch to VMAN Orion polling).
6. Click the "Update" button.

If someone knows a better/safer/more reliable way to accomplish this, please let me know!