Remote Poller Setup

Question

Because of a recent merger and having to add a large number of new devices we are in need of changing our current Orion install.  Today he have the poller and database on a single server.  I want to see how people are using the remote pollers in a distributed environment and how that's working for you.

My plan was to get new smaller windows servers to become the remote pollers and place them in a few areas of the network.  Take the exisiting server and make it the SQL server housing the Orion database.

What I'm not clear on is it possible to still have a single web site where all the nodes and information are tied in?  I don't want seperate web servers that we have to access for each remote poller.

Thanks for you help.

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errlew · Answer

Hi,
 I want to install a remote poller.
 Is  the specs the same as the host machine ?.
 Does the operating system has to be Windows 2000/2003 server or Windows XP ?

jonchill · Answer

Currently we have the main Orion box located on our central site with a seperate SQL box and 1 poller on a remote site, we envisage putting out at least a further 2 possibly 3 remote pollers to support sites that will be supporting in the next 6 months.

What we did learn from this was that the main Orion box if it's not got the database on does not have to be a very meaty box as all the remote pollers send directly to the SQL box.

HTH

Jon

IT Infrastructure Manager
Pilgrim Hospital
UK

pblatz · Answer

Check out the Fail-Over PDF 
 
www2.solarwinds.net/.../Orion-Hot-Standby.pdf 
 
The remote pollers are shown. They don't have the Web Server, that is on the Primary Orion server. You don't need hot-standby for a remote poller to work, just using this as the source for the architecture. 
 
Thanks, 
P. B. 
 
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