Orion Hot Standy Engine

Question

I just bought Orion Hot Standby Engine. I dont know how to setup this.

I have 3 servers on which want to make Orion NPM setup with hot standby engine.

please help me out.

cdoyle · Answer

Hi Imranmasroor,

It would be difficult to troubleshoot this over the forums - could you submit a ticket so that we can look into this with you?

imranmasroor · Answer

Thanks white,

Actually I installed Orion MPN 9 on two different servers and on 3rd machine I installed my SQL, at 1st machine configuration was successfull, while configuring 2nd machine with same instance of database wizard fails the configuration.

What was the reason? Is there any problem with database?

Oliver_White · Answer

Hi imranmasroor,

The Hot Standby server that you have installed and assigned has the ability to both alert you when it assumes the Orion NPM server role and continue to alert you as long as the original server is stopped. However, the transition from the stopped Orion NPM server to the Hot Standby Engine is not necessarily immediate, as the delay between primary failure and hot standby assumption is variable. The following steps configure the Hot Standby Engine alerts and delays.

To configure a Hot Standby Engine:1. Click Start > All Programs > SolarWinds Orion > Advanced Features > Monitor Polling Engines.2. Click your Hot-Standby server from the list in the top pane of the Monitor Polling Engines window.Note: The lower pane provides current information about the selected server.3. Click Configure Hot-Standby.Note: The default view of the Hot-Standby tab in the Configure Hot-Standby Server window provides a list of the servers for which the currently selected server is a hot standby.4. Check the Orion NPM server for which you are installing the new Hot Standby Engine.5. If you want to enable an alert action for when the hot standby server is employed, click Fail-Over Notifications, and then click Add New Action.Note: For more information about adding alert actions, see “Adding Alert Actions”.6. Click Fail-Over Timing.7. Position the top slider to set the delay between the stopping of the Orion NPM server and the starting of your Hot-Standby server.8. If you set an alert action as above and you want it to alert continuously, as long as the Hot-Standby server is enabled, complete the following procedure:a. Check Continuously send Fail-Over notifications…in the middle of the tab view.b. Position the bottom slider to set the delay between the stopping of the Orion NPM server and the starting of your Hot-Standby server.9. Once you have completed configuring your Hot Standby Engine, click OK.If you still have problems feel free to submit a ticket and support will help you out.Kind RegardsOliver White