SolarWinds Platform 2024.1 System Requirements NPM
SolarWinds Platform 2024.1 System Requirements NPM
1 system requirements
Review your product Administrator Guides and release notes for the exact product
requirements beyond these minimums.
SolarWinds recommends reviewing the SolarWinds Platform 2024.1 release notes and
SolarWinds Hybrid Cloud Observability 2024.1 Release Notes.
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Ports to open
SolarWinds Platform Web Console browser requirements
Microsoft Azure
To create a new database or a new database user in the Configuration Wizard, use an account
with appropriate privileges.
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SolarWinds All installed products must run on Orion Platform 2019.2 or later.
Platform database
using Azure Time zone setting of the SolarWinds Platform server must be in the same time
SQL DB zone as Azure SQL DB time zone (UTC).
DTU Standard Tier DTU Standard Tier DTU Standard Tier DTU P15
S3 or better S3 or better S4 or better
vCore Hyper-Scale
vCore General vCore General vCore General 40 vCPU
Purpose Tier 2 or Purpose Tier 2 or Purpose Tier 2 or
better better better
SolarWinds Gen5 Gen5 Gen5 Gen5
Platform database 4 vCores 8 vCores 16 vCores 40 vCores
using Azure SQL
Database
managed instance
SolarWinds A4_v2 DS4_v2 Standard E8s_v3 E64as_v4
Platform database
deployed in an IOPS 30,000+
Azure VM
Additional Polling Only relevant for environments that D4s_v3 D4s_v3
Engine monitor over 12,000 elements at default
polling intervals.
Additional Web Less than 50 concurrent users: DS12_v2
Server
More than 50 concurrent users: DS4_v2 or larger
On premises
To deploy a single SolarWinds Platform product locally, on a server, review the following
recommendations.
The minimum/recommended requirements are based on the most common element distribution
(nodes, volumes, and interfaces) and polling technology used (ICMP/SNMPv2). Using more
secure and advanced polling methods (SolarWinds Platform Agent, WMI, or SNMPv3), and more
complex element types (applications, firewalls, load balancers, wireless controllers) can increase
hardware requirements for the server beyond the recommendations.
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Minimum / Recommended
More details
SolarWinds Windows Server 2022
Platform server
software Windows Server 2019
FIPS-compliant OS's
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Minimum / Recommended
Recommended:
For XL environments, use SQL Server Enterprise 2019 CU4 and later on
Windows Server 2019
Supported:
More details
Quad core Dual quad core Dual quad core CPUs with a total
processor or better processor or better processor or better combined
More details PassMark score of
8 GB/16 GB RAM 16 GB/64 GB RAM 64 GB/128 GB 32,000 or higher
RAM
20 GB/40 GB HD 50 GB/100 GB HD 256 GB/512 GB
100/400 GB HD RAM
2 TB HD
Read/Write I/O:
30,000 IOPs /
190,000 IOPS or
better
recommended,
SSD strongly
recommended
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Minimum / Recommended
60 GB HD
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Minimum / Recommended
Account privileges SolarWinds recommends that SolarWinds Platform administrators have local
administrator privileges on the SolarWinds Platform server to ensure full
functionality of local SolarWinds tools.
User accounts limited to the SolarWinds Platform Web Console do not require
local administrator privileges.
Users running the Configuration wizard must have DBO specified as the default
database schema.
Latency The latency (RTT) between each SolarWinds Platform engine and the database
server should be below 200 ms. Degradation may begin around 100 ms,
depending on your utilization and the size of your deployment. In general, higher
latency will impact larger deployments more than smaller deployments.
Ping the SolarWinds Platform SQL Server to find the current latency and ensure a
reliable static connection between the server and the regions.
RAID recommendations only apply to physical environments. If you have your SolarWinds Platform
server installed on a virtual machine, these recommendations do not apply to your environment.
Processor speed
CPU
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HD
Two 146 GB 15K (RAID 1/Mirrored Settings) hard drives are recommended with a dedicated drive
for the server operating system and SolarWinds installation.
Some common files may need to be installed on the same drive as your server operating system.
You may want to move or expand the Windows temporary directories.
The following table lists software requirements and recommendations for a SolarWinds installation on
both physical and virtual computers.
Software Requirements
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IPv6
Dual stack
Web server If you are not using Windows Authentication, make sure the Anonymous
Authentication is enabled for the SolarWinds NetPerfMon website. Anonymous
Authentication is used with the default forms-based authentication.
IIS is activated by the Configuration Wizard. You can install this software
manually to reduce your installation time.
Run the same version of .NET on your primary server and any additional polling
engines or additional web servers in the environment.
Make sure that the operating system of your SolarWinds Platform supports
.NET 4.8. See .NET Framework system requirements (© 2019 Microsoft,
available at https://dotnet.microsoft.com, obtained on October 3, 2019).
SolarwindsOrionLog - Database used for logging syslogs, traps, and other log data.
SolarwindsFlowStorage - Database used for storing flow data.
Before upgrading from Orion Platform 2020.2.6 and earlier to SolarWinds Platform 2022.3 or later,
make sure the database user you use to connect to your SQL Server has the db create privilege.
Without this privilege, the upgrade will not complete.
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Use Standard or Enterprise editions of the following SQL versions. Support for Microsoft SQL Server
Service Packs and Cumulative Updates is assumed unless otherwise noted.
Supported versions
Recommendations
To achieve optimal performance, use SQL 2016 SP1 or later. Earlier SQL versions do not support
the columnstore index and are thus not recommended for larger deployments.
Use the Simple database recovery mode to ensure best performance.
Use 64-bit version of SQL Server.
You can set the database recovery model to Full Recovery if your SolarWinds Platform database is
hosted on a SQL Cluster or if you use Always On Availability. However, you must back up your
database regularly and ensure that volume you store your transaction log has free space that is at
least equal to or greater than the size of your SolarWinds Platform database. Your transaction logs
will continue to grow indefinitely until a database backup is performed and the transactions
committed to the database. We recommend daily database backups when you use the Full
Recovery model.
Starting with 2022.3, Express editions of supported MS SQL Server versions are not supported for
production environment. Express editions are only supported for evaluation purposes.
MS SQL Express can be installed on the same server as the SolarWinds Platform server.
When using MS SQL Express, make sure you are aware of the following limits:
Feature Limit
Maximum database size 10 GB
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Feature Limit
Maximum computing capacity used by a single Limited to lesser of 1 socket or 4 cores
instance - SQL Server Database Engine
dbcreator
public
securityadmin
Permissions:
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Due to intense I/O requirements, a RAID 1+0 drive is strongly recommended for the SolarWinds
database, data, and log files with a dedicated drive for the server operating system and tempdb
files.
Other RAID configurations can negatively affect your SQL Server's performance.
Mirrored drives for the OS and RAID 1+0 for database data files are recommended.
Solid state drives (SSD) are recommended for all components.
Some common files may need to be installed on the same drive as your server operating system. You
may want to move or expand the Windows or SQL temporary directories. For more information, see
Working with Temporary Directories.
For large environments with a physical SQL Server, SolarWinds recommends the following hard drive
configuration.
These recommendations are not relevant for SQL Servers running in a virtual environment.
Authentication
Either mixed-mode or Windows authentication. If you require SQL authentication, you must enable mixed
mode on your SQL server.
Other software
SolarWinds recommends you install the SQL Server Management Studio component on your SolarWinds
Platform database server.
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The SolarWinds Installer installs the following required x86 components if they are not found on your
SolarWinds Platform database server:
SQL Server System Common Language Runtime (CLR) Types. SolarWinds Platform uses secure
SQL CLR stored procedures for selected, non-business data operations to improve overall
performance.
Microsoft SQL Server Native Client
Microsoft SQL Server Management Objects
You cannot share the SolarWinds Platform database with Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft
Exchange, and Research in Motion (RIM) BlackBerry servers.
SolarWinds does not recommend the use of HTTP (Port 80). Please use HTTPS (Port 443) to
ensure that any web-related connections are secure.
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SNMP Informs
443 TCP IIS Inbound Default port for https binding. SSL
465 TCP SolarWinds Alerting Outbound SMTP port used to send TLS- SSL
Service V2 enabled email alert actions
514 UDP SolarWinds Syslog Inbound Receive syslog messages n/a
Service
587 TCP SolarWinds Alerting Outbound SMTP port used to send TLS- TLS
Service V2 enabled email alert actions
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SolarWinds
Information Service
SolarWinds
Information Service
V3
SolarWinds Orion
Module Engine
1434 UDP SolarWinds Alerting Outbound Communication with the SQL n/a
Service V2 Server Browser Service to
determine how to
SolarWinds communicate with certain
Administration non-standard SQL Server
Service installations. Required only if
your SQL Server is configured
SolarWinds to use dynamic ports.
Information Service
SolarWinds
Information Service
V3
SolarWinds Orion
Module Engine
Sending messages to
RabbitMQ.
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See SolarWinds Port requirements for a comprehensive list of port requirements for SolarWinds
products.
Optional, individual components, such as SolarWinds Platform Agents and High Availability, have
additional port requirements.
SolarWinds Platform supports two most recent versions of the following web browsers available at the
release date:
Firefox
Chrome
Microsoft Edge
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