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Removing failover engine

HI,

I want to remove failover from my system. what steps are require for this and what is its effect on the system. Kindly help me if any one knows???

Regards,

Kiran Javed

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FormerMember

"If you have a teamed NIC setup on those servers, you must first break the NIC team prior upgrading or uninstalling Neverfail Heartbeat. Failure to break the NIC team prior to upgrading or uninstalling Neverfail Heartbeat will result in a hung state."

"When you uninstall FoE, be sure to change the hostnames and IP addresses of the secondary/passive server in each pair to prevent conflicts on your network. Also, make sure to stop SolarWinds services on the secondary/passive server in each pair so that you do not end up with two machines trying to update the NPM database at once."
I couldn't understand these statement can anybody explain these for me? i'll be thankful.

HerrDoktor

If you have any trouble uninstalling FoE this article might help.

Saved me some time:

http://knowledgebase.solarwinds.com/kb/questions/1533/How+to+Manually+Uninstall+Orion+Failover+Engine

Kind Regards,

Holger

FormerMember

SolarWinds Orion Failover Engine Packet Filter Driver and Neverfail packet filter driver are the same thing or not???

HerrDoktor

To my knowledge yes, since the FoE of Orion is based on the Neverfail Engine.

I am not 100% sure but very confident that indeed those 2 are the same.

FormerMember

Is this possible that after removing FOE secondary server remain at standby and in case of failure we manually make secondary active? Is there any such senario without FOE??

HerrDoktor

On first thought I would say No, that is not possible. You would need to have some sort of "Availability-Software" in the middle...like Failover Engine.

Why do you need to uninstall FoE? Is the product not working for you?

FormerMember

Licence has been expired and i am not going to renew it due to some reasons. Is this possible that we manually update the standby server along with the primary server and at the time of filure we assign the primary's IP to the standby server and it starts working as primary server???

HerrDoktor

What Modules for Orion are you using. If this is only NPM I guess it might be working. Please refer to this document then:

http://www.solarwinds.com/documentation/orion/docs/OrionServerMigration.pdf

But be aware that just changing the IP address etc is not enough. You have to do more things.

Also: you can't have 2 Servers running with the same License. License is bound to the Machine