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Explore how the Orion Failover Engine (FoE) provides two-minute failover for your Orion management system to ensure you never lose network performance visibility.

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Orion Failover Engine is licensed by the number of primary Orion products installed per server. The following products are defined as primary Orion products:

  • Orion Network Performance Monitor (NPM)
  • Orion Network Configuration Manager (NCM)
  • Orion Application Performance Monitor (APM)

Failover support for additional Orion NPM modules is essentially ‘free’ with the purchase of the Orion Failover Engine for Orion NPM. These include:

  • Orion NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA)
  • Orion IP SLA Manager
  • Orion IP Address Manager (IPAM)*
  • SolarWinds User Device Tracker (UDT)*

If IPAM or UDT are installed standalone (without a primary product), they will require an FoE P1 license.

The Orion Failover Engine for Orion Enterprise Operations Console and Orion Polling Engines must be purchased as separate software licenses for each installed server.

Licensing Summary

FoE - P1 Failover for a Single Primary Orion Product Per Server
FoE - P2 Failover for Up to Two Primary Orion Products Per Server
FoE - P3 Failover for Up to Three Primary Orion Products Per Server
FoE – PE Failover for an Orion Polling Engine
FoE - EOC Failover for Orion Enterprise Operations Console

For example:

  • Orion products:
    • Server 1 – Orion NPM, NTA, APM
    • Server 2 – Orion Polling Engine
  • Orion Failover Engine Licenses:
    • FoE 2 (NPM + APM)
      • NTA is covered for free
    • FoE PE

Swapping of licenses is not allowed under the SolarWinds licensing model. E.g. an FoE-P2 cannot be swapped for 2 FoE-P1 licenses.

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