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Agents deployed in HA and how they communicate

Referring to:

https://thwack.solarwinds.com/product-forums/server-application-monitor-sam/f/forum/53379/which-ip-to-use-during-agents-installation-in-case-of-ha

VIP and VHN is not used for agent at all. Connection configuration is sent to agent automatically by Orion and cannot be set by user
If you have an Agent that should be connected to a pool, then Orion sends both IPs to the agent

Further information on Agents:

1) When you install initially, you supply any host/ip that allows the initial connection of Agent to Orion. During the connection the Agent downloads provisioning info that contains all hosts/ips under which Orion server is known (or in HA case any of the Orion servers in the said pool)

2) During regular operation Agent uses this set of hosts/ips and tries to maintain connection to any that works for the particular agent (remember it can be in a completely different subnet than Orion)

the set of orion hosts/ips is updated when necessary while the active connection is up

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decust

I've been encountering this issue too. This would help a lot in my environment. Right now we've set everything to Server Initiated, but seems like we lose several agents when they reboot.

So having a solution for agent initiated that connect to the HA pool after swapping them to another engine would help a lot.

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