I see a lot of High Availability failovers in our environment. Often the cause is not shown, The event log shows "Reason of tail: ",
but one of the more common ones I do see a reason for is "Orion engine resource is critical due to unexpected engine services status. Service 'SolarWindsRecommendations' has expected status Running but the real is Stopped".
Frankly, I don't give a hoot if "SolarWindsRecommendations" service is running. We do not use the recommendations. Our VM team has their own tools to handle VM configuration/sizing/sprawl and whatnot and I wouldn't presume to try and tell them they should change anything (because they probably wouldn't listen anyway).
We use the VMAN module just to get information about the hosts/VMs from VCenter into SolarWinds, not to manage the VMWare environment.
The SolarWindsRecommendations service should not trigger an HA failover if it stops in our environment. The failover is much more disruptive than the service stopping. I don't know if it is critical in other environments but I would like to configure HA to ignore the status of this service. I have tried to find where the monitored services are enumerated to no avail.
If there is a config file that I could edit to remove SolarWindsRecommendations from the list of services monitored, that would be great. Can anyone point me to the right file or database table to safely remove a service from monitoring in HA?
