Hi, I’m Joel Dolisy, chief architect for SolarWinds; over the next few months I’ll try to provide insight of what’s happening in the engineering side of the house. As Josh mentioned a few weeks ago I’m researching the types of failover scenarios we need to support in Orion, and how those relate to the existing hot-standby polling engine strategy. As usual, the complexity of the solution depends on the level of failover support that the product needs to operate under. Claiming that a solution is fail safe is actually a complicated problem to solve and involves the interaction of different...