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Auto Load-balance of devices and other functions.

Hello,

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This is a rough draft below of an idea I thought to be valuable. I'm accepting input below from anyone who wishes to contribute. I would like to mature this idea in hopes of catching the eyes of the product managers and or developers from solarwinds. I'm hoping possibly to get some traction on this if the community things this is something useful.

Idea below:

This idea stems from having a large environment and not having an easier way to load balance jobs and devices across all pollers.

1. When you do a discovery, the poller always defaults to one single poller. Discovery should be set to add devices across pollers depending on poller load. This way for those unaware, they won't be overloading just a single server when they do not change the poller before starting the discovery. I myself have many times while going through many discoveries forgotten to change the poller causing everything to be added to my primary overwhelming and overloading my primary server. I think discovery should have two modes an auto mode that will automatically let the devices be distributed and added evenly or a manual mode where you chose the poller where you want to add the devices too. This will enable ease of use when adding devices so that they are even displaced among the pollers instead of crashing a server with to many devices to be monitored.

2. This would be good if it could be implemented with other modules in consideration. For example, right now I have one poller with 250 devices which is low on device count. but when you add templates, interfaces, volumes, etc. Once can easily see that even with a small node count you can still overload the servers without knowing it.

We have near 100k element count and quickly growing. Due to no inventory list telling me which node is where and what is being monitored my environment is all over the place which means I have to take time to go through this even things out which will not at all be an easy task.

I'm sure those with large infrastructures will appreciate this idea and I'm hoping people will contribute more to it. It is something I think could potentially bring even more value to solarwinds.

This is a tool and or function already offered in some competitor software. I think it would put solarwinds ahead of them having such a tool in place.

lcsw2013
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  • Bump... People aren't seeing how great this feature can be.  But I'm hoping to catch the eye of a product manager or developer. Would be nice to have this implemented.

  • in reply to lcsw2013

    I've written scripts to handle balancing via the API but it would definitely be nice to have Orion doing this natively, the tricky part is where people can only reach certain devices from certain pollers but just being able to create poller groups and associate a discovery with the group would get around that easily, and then that builds toward being able to do automatic failover to another APE in the event that a poller stops working as expected.

  • in reply to mesverrum

    Right. The point is not to just strictly automate the process. But rather offer an alternate option to the current option to allow automation if the environment needs it.

    We have a problem where if we move devices to a different poller they stop polling but come to figure out that this was an internal problem. Network guys took a look and figure it was a route issue. That fixed that.

    But still left us with no way to auto balance but instead having to manual balance close to 100 k elements will take us a long time. node wise we have around 4500 nodes in monitoring and growing almost on a weekly bases.

    With growing pains we are finding the weak area's of the software. What made it tough for us was finding feature request with hundreds of up votes which was started years back and the feature still not implemented. One would thing if a feature request is getting hundreds of up-votes it's a hot item.

    This is more of an enhancement than it is a feature request. One that would make a world of difference to us.

  • in reply to lcsw2013

    We have some devices that our network folk say can't point to more than one poller.  There is also one set of devices the owners don't want to open firewalls to more than one poller.  This is the vast minority of our devices though.  This feature should include the ability to lock down some devices to specific pollers or sets of pollers for this reason.

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  • in reply to lcsw2013

    We have some devices that our network folk say can't point to more than one poller.  There is also one set of devices the owners don't want to open firewalls to more than one poller.  This is the vast minority of our devices though.  This feature should include the ability to lock down some devices to specific pollers or sets of pollers for this reason.

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