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Now you can distribute Orion network device polling across multiple servers. Learn how to add additional polling engines to your enterprise network monitoring environment.

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Improve your network management coverage with the addition of Orion Additional Polling Engines and greatly expand the number of elements or applications that you can monitor with Orion.  With the addition of Orion Additional Polling Engines, you can:

  • Distribute the polling load for your Orion installation between multiple servers to provide scalability for large networks
  • Reduce the impact on your poller performance as a result of rapid growth within your virtualization infrastructure
  • Extend the functionality of Orion modules to your polling engines at no additional cost

Licensing

Orion Additional Polling Engines are licensed based on the number of Orion servers, physical or virtual they are deployed on and automatically extend polling abilities to all of your Orion modules.

Deployment Scenario

Required Polling Engine License(s)

I have NPM or APM installed on a single Orion core* server.

A single Orion Polling Engine license will support any Orion core* product and any Orion modules installed on your single Orion core server.

I have NPM and APM installed on a single Orion core* server.

A single Orion Polling Engine license will support both of the Orion core* products and any Orion modules installed on your single Orion core server.

I have NPM or APM installed across multiple Orion core* servers and want to extend polling capacity for all servers.

You will need an Orion Polling Engine license for each Orion core* server on which you need additional polling capacity.

I have NPM or APM installed across multiple Orion core* servers but only need to add additional polling across one Orion core* server.

You will need an Orion Polling Engine license for each Orion core* server on which you need additional polling capacity.

Orion core* - Denotes Orion Network Performance Monitor (NPM) or Orion Application Performance Monitor (APM).  Excludes support for Orion Network Configuration Manager (NCM).