Running into an issue with polling a clustered SQL Instance using the SQL AppInsight monitor.
I originally wanted to just pole the instance IP but that doesn't seem to work properly. The only way to add the instance IP as a node was to add it by ICMP, because the instance does not have WMI I cannot connect using WMI permissions. Once I add the node via ICMP I was able to add the SQL AppInsight Monitor but this comes with its own set of issues. It will pole most things having to do with the SQL DB but for items that require local server access (like Services and Disk speeds) it cannot pole anything without WMI access. So catch 22, the Instance IP doesn't support WMI and I cannot get all my data without WMI.
After thinking about my only solution was to pole the active node in the cluster. Doing this makes everything show up fine, but what happens when you fail over? If the active node becomes a different node what does Solarwinds do? My current environment is 4 nodes so is there a way to get it to see all four nodes and poll the current one that is active? If not is this something we just have to manually move when there is a failover?
Thanks in advance,
--Steve