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2 Orion's one Database

Our company purchased a smaller company, and they were also using Orion. Because of the org structure moving forward, they will continue to use Orion, but I was wondering if we can consolidate the database for both Orion front ends? Will this cause confusion in the Orion software? Can I just use their installation of Orion as a second "polling engine"? Or will I have to buy a "polling engine" license and just let the SLX they bought go to waste?

Thanks in advance!!

xtort

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Network_Guru

So does that mean that I can run the config editor and point the other orion server to start recording its stats to my database? I would prefer to keep all the data in my single db cluster, and just use the other SLX license as a remote polling engine. I just wasn't sure if they would conflict somehow, if they tried to use the same db.
Thanks.
Xtort.

No you can't do this. There will be a conflict with the same NodeIDs and Interface IDs in each DB.
Your would have to re-license one of the pollers as a remote poller and re-add all your nodes on this poller.

You could most likely export the Nodes with Community strings and import them into the new remote poller.

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aLTeReGo

Sounds like the perfect use for the Enterprise Operations Console

http://www.solarwinds.com/products/orion/eoc/index.aspx

xtort

So does that mean that I can run the config editor and point the other orion server to start recording its stats to my database? I would prefer to keep all the data in my single db cluster, and just use the other SLX license as a remote polling engine. I just wasn't sure if they would conflict somehow, if they tried to use the same db.

Thanks.

Xtort.

mark_wiggans

Each Orion will need it's own separate DB. The EOC will provide a dashboard of the aggregated data.

Network_Guru

So does that mean that I can run the config editor and point the other orion server to start recording its stats to my database? I would prefer to keep all the data in my single db cluster, and just use the other SLX license as a remote polling engine. I just wasn't sure if they would conflict somehow, if they tried to use the same db.
Thanks.
Xtort.

You could most likely export the Nodes with Community strings and import them into the new remote poller.

xtort

Thank you all for your answers. I will get a second polling engine license for this remote datacenter!

Sincerely,

xtort