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Hi, Two main pollers are configured active and stand-by in HA, need to swap the IP addresses between them without changing the hostnames. Target is to assign IP address of active main poller to standby poller. Active Main poller IP address: 10.10.10.5 Standby main poller IP address: 10.10.10.6 How?
When organizations first take on the challenge of setting up a disaster recovery plan, it’s almost always based on the premise that a complete failure will occur. With that in mind, we take the approach of planning for a complete recovery. We replicate our services and VMs to some sort of secondary site and go through the…
By Joe Kim, SolarWinds EVP, Engineering and Global CTO Because databases are so important to federal IT, I wanted to share a blog written earlier this year by my SolarWinds colleague, Thomas LaRock. Federal IT pros must be prepared for every situation. For most, a database disaster is not a matter of if, but rather when.…
I've been responsible for Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Preparedness for my company for nearly eight years. In my role as Certified Business Continuity Professional, I have conducted well over a dozen DR exercises in various scopes and scale. Years ago, I inherited a complete debacle. Like almost all other…
[Update: 20 Feb, 2019] Even though below is a working solution - I would not recommend you to do it this way, simply because at the time of writing and solving this problem - HA over WAN was not available as a feature in SolarWinds. However, you can still use below approach as an example and guidelines for your DR…
So you’ve made it through a disaster recovery event. Well done! Whether it was a simulation or an actual recovery, it was possibly a tense and trying time for you and your operations team. The business is no doubt happy to know that everything is back up and running from an infrastructure perspective, and they’re likely…
No matter how much automation, redundancy, and protection you build into your systems, thing are always going to break. It might be a change breaking an API to another system. It might be a change in a metric. Perhaps you just experienced massive hardware failure. Many IT organizations have traditionally had a postmortem,…
Disaster recovery can be a complicated beast to tame. If you’re attempting to recover your IT infrastructure from some kind of disaster, you’re already faced with a number of challenges. First, there’s been an event that’s serious enough to warrant disaster recovery. Whether it’s flood, a plague of locusts, or someone…
Disasters come in many forms. I’ve walked in on my daughters when they were younger and doing craft things in their bedroom and said “this is a disaster!” When it comes to serious events though, most people think of natural disasters, like floods or earthquakes. But a disaster can also be defined as an event that has a…
Summary: Since a number of disaster recovery strategies include Azure as a location to recover to, this document is focused on using SolarWinds Backup and its Recovery Console to keep warm standby virtual images up to date within Azure. This is a great feature for companies that wish to have their DR systems ready to go…
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