I'd like to shutdown polling on my main Orion sever and make it strictly and app server. Can I promote an existing additional polling engine to be the primary?
If I got you right... you only have to select all your nodes monitored by your Main Polling Engine, and change them to your APE.
You can do that on the Manage Nodes page.
Sorry. I want to eliminate the core poller and promote an additional poller to the primary status. I do not want the core poller to be an option when adding nodes. I intend the core server to be strictly an application server. No polling on the core. I do not want the core to be the primary poller.
Hello there!
The first server you install is always your primary server, unless you rebuild it. The primary server has things installed on it, such as the reporting and alerting engines, which APEs do not, and cannot have.Unfortunately you cannot promote an APE to a Primary. You can, however, rebuild the primary server, migrate all nodes from the APE to it, and then decommission the APE, leaving you with just the new, Primary, server (if you need to move an on-prem Primary to the cloud, for example).I'm curious, if you can share, what is the reason for wanting to do this? There might be another way around your problem which we can assist with
I want to reduce the resource usage on our core server by eliminating polling from the server.
