Hello all,
I recently started a new gig and their current Orion NPM server is in BAD shape. It's running version 10.1.2 and I constantly have to restart service because it stops polling data after random periods of time. They started to stand up a new NPM server before I began working with them but it is still unfinished and I have some reservations.
Currently, the new NPM server has it's own physical server to itself including the SQL server database (local). I'd like to get the SQL database on our SQL cluster so that it's better protected on our storage array. In doing that, I don't really see the necessity of having a pretty nice physical server just for NPM/NCM, so I was thinking about P2V. The only issue with that is that we have a modem attached to the older Orion NPM server that sends out SMS messages for alerts. I'm sure we could configure the new NPM server to use e-mail to send e-mails to our SMS carrier, however, what happens if e-mail, Orion, or our entire virtual environment goes down. How do we get notifcations if our Orion server cannot communicate with us? What are you guys doing to get around this? More than 1 server?
Regards,
Keith