Afraid of the dark? We are. Network engineers around the world have grown to love the visibility Orion network management products deliver into their network’s performance. But what happens if your Orion server hits a snag? Failures can be caused by server hardware issues, operating system lock-ups, power outages, or even by network availability itself—and these issues are much more common than you think!
Managing a network in the dark is no fun. That’s why we’ve created the Orion Failover Engine (FoE) which monitors the health of your Orion server to ensure you never lose network performance visibility. If something should happen to your primary Orion server, Orion FoE automatically fails over to a remote server. The passive failover server assumes the full identity of the Orion server and assumes all monitoring, alerting, reporting, and data collection responsibility. Orion FoE’s switchover is an automatic, seamless process to ensure Orion data collection continuity and is completely transparent to the user. Orion FoE is an ideal disaster recovery solution for networks that demand high availability and performance.
Key Features:
- Provides two-minute failover for your business-critical network management system
- Delivers instant e-mail notification if key health thresholds for your network management system are crossed
- Supports the customization of failover rules which can trigger based on application, system, process, and service health thresholds
- Provides high availability and ensures business continuity with real-time monitoring of your Orion implementation (including Orion modules and polling engines)
- Saves time by automating failover tasks such as creating processes, restarting services, or updating DNS records
- Prevents downtime with almost instantaneous automated failover when component failures occur
- Minimizes WAN traffic during disaster recovery scenarios by leveraging WAN data compression optimization
Orion Failover Engine Overview
See how Orion FoE ensures uninterrupted monitoring.
Quick Start Guide
Learn how to quickly setup the Orion Failover Engine.
While the Orion Failover Engine provides full coverage for your Orion implementation, SolarWinds has partnered with Neverfail® to also provide Microsoft® SQL database failover support.