- Release Notes
- SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted 2024.4.1 release notes
- SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted 2024.4 release notes
- SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted 2024.2.1 release notes
- SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted 2024.2 release notes
- SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted 2024.1.1 release notes
- SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted 2024.1 release notes
- SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted 2023.4.2 release notes
- SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted 2023.4.1 release notes
- SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted 2023.4 release notes
- SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted 2023.3.1 release notes
- SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted 2023.3 release notes
- SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted 2023.2.2 release notes
- SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted 2023.2.1 release notes
- SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted 2023.2 release notes
- SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted 2023.1.1 release notes
- SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted 2023.1 release notes
- SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted 2022.4.1 release notes
- SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted 2022.4 release notes
- SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted 2022.3 release notes
- SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted 2022.2 release notes
- SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted 2020.2.6 release notes
- Orion Platform Hotfixes
- SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted release history
- SolarWinds Platform release history
- SolarWinds Platform release notes aggregator
- Install or Upgrade
- SolarWinds Platform Products Installation and Upgrade Guide
- About installing or upgrading SolarWinds Platform products and scalability engines
- Prepare to install or upgrade SolarWinds Platform products
- Install SolarWinds Platform products in a new environment
- Install an additional polling engine, additional web server, or HA server in a SolarWinds Platform deployment
- Options for upgrading scalability engines
- Upgrade an existing deployment
- Add a new SolarWinds Platform product to an existing deployment
- Troubleshoot a SolarWinds Platform product installation
- Scalability engine guidelines for SolarWinds products
- Deploy SolarWinds Platform products to Amazon Web Services
- Deploy SolarWinds Platform products to Microsoft Azure
- Install SolarWinds Platform products using Azure Marketplace in Microsoft Azure or Microsoft Azure Government
- Install SolarWinds Platform products using Amazon AWS Marketplace (CloudFormation)
- Deploy the SolarWinds Platform (self-hosted) in a multi-tenant way
- Run the SolarWinds Installer in silent mode
- Reasons to Upgrade SolarWinds Platform Products from a 2012 Infrastructure
- SolarWinds Platform Migration Guide
- Migrate the SolarWinds Platform server with minimal downtime
- Migrate SolarWinds Platform products to a new server using the same IP and hostname
- Migrate SolarWinds Platform products to a new server with a new IP or hostname
- Migrate the SolarWinds Platform database to a new server
- Migrate the SolarWinds Platform database to or from a Microsoft Azure database solution
- Migrate the SolarWinds Platform database to Amazon RDS for SQL Server
- Upgrade the Orion SQL Server without migration
- Get Started
- Administer
- SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted and SolarWinds Platform (self-hosted) Administrator Guide
- SolarWinds Platform features
- What is SolarWinds Observability and how does it work
- Licensing model for SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted
- License SolarWinds Platform products in the SolarWinds Platform Web Console
- Evaluate SolarWinds Platform products
- Activate your SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted license
- Activate licenses for SolarWinds Platform products
- Upgrade licenses in the SolarWinds Platform
- Assign licenses for SolarWinds Platform products to a server
- Migrate SolarWinds Platform licenses from one server to another
- Synchronize licenses in the SolarWinds Platform
- Connect SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted to SolarWinds Observability SaaS
- Anomaly-Based Alerting in SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted
- SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted security integration
- Discover and add network devices to SolarWinds Platform
- Discover your network for the SolarWinds Platform with the Discovery Wizard
- Add nodes to SolarWinds Platform using Active Directory
- Credentials for Active Directory discovery in SolarWinds Platform
- Automatically add discovered nodes to SolarWinds Platform
- Advanced discovery in the SolarWinds Platform
- Add discovered devices to the SolarWinds Platform
- Add a single node for monitoring to the SolarWinds Platform
- Choose the polling method to use in the SolarWinds Platform
- Use a list of IP addresses to discover your network
- Manage scheduled discovery results in the SolarWinds Platform
- Minimize SNMP processing load during discoveries in the SolarWinds Platform using the Discovery Ignore List
- Manage devices in the SolarWinds Platform Web Console
- Delete devices from monitoring
- View node data in tooltips
- Edit node properties
- Change the polling method for a node
- Promote a node from ICMP to SNMP monitoring
- Change polling engine node assignments in the SolarWinds Platform
- View the resources and statistics monitored on a node
- Monitor volumes in the SolarWinds Platform
- Suspend data collection or alerts for nodes in Maintenance Mode
- Poll and rediscover devices immediately
- Calculate node status in the SolarWinds Platform
- Node status contributors
- Status Rollup Mode in the SolarWinds Platform
- Group objects and mirror network dependencies in the SolarWinds Platform Web Console
- View events, alerts, traps, and syslogs in the SolarWinds Platform Web Console Message Center
- Monitor hardware health
- Monitor Hardware Health for Nutanix clusters
- Nutanix Hardware Health monitoring requirements
- Set up Hardware Health monitoring for Nutanix clusters
- Display Hardware Health data for Nutanix clusters
- Understand Nutanix sensor status mapping
- Manage alerts and reports for Nutanix clusters
- Troubleshoot Nutanix Hardware Health monitoring
- Monitor Hardware Health for Nutanix clusters
- Monitor Cisco UCS devices in the SolarWinds Platform
- Monitor cloud instances and VMs
- Recommendations and requirements for monitoring cloud accounts
- Configure cloud accounts for the SolarWinds Platform
- Find cloud account credentials
- Add the first cloud account to the SolarWinds Platform
- Explore cloud instances and VMs
- Cloud service polling overview
- Throttling overview: control resources used by your cloud instance/VM
- Manage your cloud infrastructure
- Access the Cloud Infrastructure Monitoring Settings page
- Add another cloud account
- Manage existing cloud accounts
- Edit cloud account properties
- Choose cloud instances/VMs to monitor
- Perform actions against cloud instances and VMs: stop, reboot, delete, unmanage, poll now, or turn polling on/off
- Manage a cloud instance or VM as a SolarWinds Platform node
- Remove a cloud account
- Edit retention settings for cloud-related statistics
- Edit global thresholds for cloud monitoring
- Create cloud application monitors and templates
- Manage cloud monitoring alerts
- Troubleshoot cloud monitoring
- Troubleshoot cloud monitoring with PerfStack
- Monitor containers in the SolarWinds Platform
- Monitor virtual infrastructure
- Quality of Experience
- Monitor Quality of Experience metrics
- Poll devices with SolarWinds Platform Agents
- Modify global agent deployment and update settings
- Agent communication modes
- Deploy agents to nodes
- Deploy an agent with the Add Node wizard
- Deploy agents to monitored nodes
- Deploy the agent manually to a Windows computer
- Deploy SolarWinds Platform Agents manually to a Linux/Unix-based computer
- Credentials and privileges used on Linux/Unix-based computers
- Mass deploy an agent on Windows
- Deploy agents on Linux/Unix-based computers through a repository
- Deploy with a Gold Master Image
- Deploy an agent with Patch Manager
- Prerequisites for deploying agents on Windows Core Servers
- Deploy Windows agents in the cloud
- Manually deploy an agent on Amazon Web Services
- Automatically deploy a Windows agent to established instances on Amazon Web Services
- Automatically deploy SolarWinds Platform Agent on Azure VMs
- View agent connections and status, update agents, or manage agents
- Edit agent settings
- Track your polling method
- View the status of agent plug-ins
- Edit agent connection settings or reprovision the agent once deployed
- Connect to or register a previously installed agent to modify connection or update settings
- Migrate agents from one Orion instance to another
- Use a group policy to migrate agents on Windows
- Redeploy agents from the SolarWinds Platform Web Console to a monitored node
- Change the agent communication mode on the remote node
- Change the agent port to match the open port on the SolarWinds Platform server
- Agent polling method
- View logs and events with the Log Viewer
- Log Viewer installation scenarios
- Log Viewer feature comparison
- Evaluate Log Analyzer
- Log Viewer licensing model
- Explore the Log Viewer
- Create custom log-processing rules in Log Viewer
- Duplicate rules
- Reorder custom rules in Log Viewer
- Import and export rules
- Legacy rule migration and LA/LV feature comparison
- Run external program variables in Log Viewer
- Integrate SolarWinds Platform alerts with Log Viewer
- Log forwarding in Log Viewer
- Search and filter historical event logs in Log Viewer
- Filter entry details in Log Viewer
- Drop unwanted event logs in Log Viewer
- Log Analyzer alert variables for syslogs and traps
- Set Log Viewer storage and search retention period
- Monitor Syslog messages
- Monitor SNMP traps
- Alert Integrations in the SolarWinds Platform
- Troubleshooting environmental issues with Performance Analysis dashboards
- Use alerts to monitor your environment with the SolarWinds Platform
- Alert preconfiguration tasks in the SolarWinds Platform
- Configure the default information in the email action for SolarWinds Platform alerts
- Best practices and tips for alerting in the SolarWinds Platform
- Navigate to the Alert Manager in the SolarWinds Platform
- Add an SMTP server in the SolarWinds Platform
- Create new alerts to monitor your environment with the SolarWinds Platform
- Set alert properties in the SolarWinds Platform
- Define the conditions that must exist to trigger an alert in the SolarWinds Platform
- Define the conditions that must exist to reset an alert in the SolarWinds Platform
- Schedule when an alert monitors your environment
- Define what happens when an alert is triggered in the SolarWinds Platform
- Define what happens when the alert is reset in the SolarWinds Platform
- Review the alert's configuration in the SolarWinds Platform
- Reduce alerting noise in the SolarWinds Platform
- Complex trigger conditions in the SolarWinds Platform
- Alerts with multi-element triggers in the SolarWinds Platform
- Use duration in the trigger for SolarWinds Platform alerts
- The 'Do Not Alert' alert in the SolarWinds Platform
- Send SolarWinds Platform alerts to specific contacts
- Single alert when multiple devices go down in the SolarWinds Platform
- Event correlation alerts (Y after X) in the SolarWinds Platform
- Commonly created alerts in the SolarWinds Platform
- View triggered SolarWinds Platform alerts in the SolarWinds Platform Web Console
- Remove alerts from the Active Alerts list in the SolarWinds Platform
- Test alert triggers and actions in the SolarWinds Platform
- Modify multiple alerts or share alerts in the SolarWinds Platform
- Build complex conditions in the SolarWinds Platform
- Manage alert actions in the SolarWinds Platform
- Approve alert actions executing a script
- Alert actions available in the SolarWinds Platform
- Change a custom property alert action in the SolarWinds Platform
- Create a ServiceNow incident in the SolarWinds Platform
- Create a SolarWinds Service Desk incident in the SolarWinds Platform
- Dial a paging or SMS service in the SolarWinds Platform
- Email a web page to users in the SolarWinds Platform
- Execute an external program in the SolarWinds Platform
- Execute an external Visual Basic script in the SolarWinds Platform
- Failover to a standby server in the SolarWinds Platform
- Log the alert message to a file in the SolarWinds Platform
- Log the alert to the NPM event log
- Change the resource allocation of a virtual machine in the SolarWinds Platform
- Delete a snapshot of a virtual machine in the SolarWinds Platform
- Move a virtual machine to a different host in the SolarWinds Platform
- Move a virtual machine to a different storage in the SolarWinds Platform
- Pause a virtual machine in the SolarWinds Platform
- Power off a virtual machine in the SolarWinds Platform
- Power on a virtual machine in the SolarWinds Platform
- Restart a virtual machine in the SolarWinds Platform
- Suspend a virtual machine in the SolarWinds Platform
- Take a snapshot of a virtual machine in the SolarWinds Platform
- Play a sound when an alert is triggered in the SolarWinds Platform
- Restart IIS sites or application pools in the SolarWinds Platform
- Send an SNMP trap in the SolarWinds Platform
- Send a GET or POST request through HTTP or HTTPS in the SolarWinds Platform
- Send a syslog message in the SolarWinds Platform
- Send an email or page in the SolarWinds Platform
- Manually set a custom status in the SolarWinds Platform
- Use the speech synthesizer to read alerts in the SolarWinds Platform
- Log an alert to the Windows Event Log in the SolarWinds Platform
- Variables in the SolarWinds Platform
- Changes in the alerting engine introduced in Orion Platform 2015.1
- Alert migration to the web
- Share SolarWinds Platform alerts with other SolarWinds products
- AlertStack
- Manage SolarWinds Platform Web Console user accounts in the SolarWinds Platform
- Create users in the SolarWinds Platform
- Change passwords for SolarWinds Platform users
- Unlock user accounts
- Set and manage user account expiration
- Configure user password expiration
- Enable SolarWinds Platform users to authenticate through LDAP
- Authenticate SolarWinds Platform users with SAML v2
- Configure Okta for single sign-on login to the SolarWinds Platform Web Console
- Configure Active Directory Federation Services for single sign-on login to the SolarWinds Platform Web Console
- Configure Azure AD for single sign-on login to the SolarWinds Platform Web Console
- Create a SAML user in the SolarWinds Platform
- Troubleshoot SAML Login
- Define what users can access and do in the SolarWinds Platform
- Restrict user access to network areas by applying limitations in the SolarWinds Platform
- Set default menu bars and views for users in the SolarWinds Platform
- Limit users to specific network areas in the SolarWinds Platform
- Configure automatic login in the SolarWinds Platform
- Enable Windows Authentication with Active Directory in the SolarWinds Platform
- Supported Active Directory scenarios in the SolarWinds Platform
- Log in to the SolarWinds Platform with Windows pass-through security
- Share SolarWinds Platform views with non-SolarWinds Platform Web Console users
- Automatically log in to the SolarWinds Platform by passing your credentials through the URL
- Manage polling engines in the SolarWinds Platform
- Additional Polling Engines in the SolarWinds Platform
- Use an Additional Web Server
- Calculate node availability in the SolarWinds Platform
- Assign credentials to virtual servers in the SolarWinds Platform
- Set the node warning level in the SolarWinds Platform
- Delete polling engines in the SolarWinds Platform
- Administrative functions of the SolarWinds Platform Web Console in the SolarWinds Platform
- SolarWinds Platform Web Console administration in the SolarWinds Platform
- View secure data in the SolarWinds Platform
- Handle counter rollovers in the SolarWinds Platform
- Configure web proxy settings in the SolarWinds Platform
- Maintain the SolarWinds Platform database in the SolarWinds Platform
- Security enhancements and exceptions for SolarWinds Platform products
- Update polling settings in the SolarWinds Platform
- Configure polling interval settings in the SolarWinds Platform
- Configure polling statistics intervals in the SolarWinds Platform
- Configure the dynamic IP address and hostname resolution in the SolarWinds Platform
- Configure Database Settings in the SolarWinds Platform
- Configure network settings for the SolarWinds Platform
- Configure calculations and threshold settings in the SolarWinds Platform
- Manage the SolarWinds Platform Web Console for your SolarWinds Platform
- Log in to the SolarWinds Platform Web Console
- Mandatory notice on the login page
- Customize the Manage Nodes / Entities view in the SolarWinds Platform
- Thresholds in the SolarWinds Platform
- Filter nodes in SolarWinds Platform widgets using SQL queries
- Custom properties in the SolarWinds Platform
- Create a custom property in the SolarWinds Platform
- Remove a custom property in the SolarWinds Platform
- Import custom property values in the SolarWinds Platform
- Export custom property data in the SolarWinds Platform
- Change custom properties in SolarWinds Platform
- Filter objects when assigning custom properties in the SolarWinds Platform
- Draw horizontal lines in SolarWinds Platform widgets
- Create a custom location property in the SolarWinds Platform
- Customize the SolarWinds Platform Web Console look, views, settings, charts, and maps in the SolarWinds Platform
- Customize the SolarWinds Platform Web Console look for the SolarWinds Platform
- Customize My Dashboards in the SolarWinds Platform
- Hide/Show items in Alerts & Activity
- Change the SolarWinds Platform Web Console color scheme in the SolarWinds Platform
- Change the SolarWinds Platform Web Console logo in the SolarWinds Platform
- Use SolarWinds Platform Web Console breadcrumbs in the SolarWinds Platform
- Add custom properties to node popovers in the SolarWinds Platform
- Dashboards or views
- How custom views/classic dashboards work in the SolarWinds Platform
- Plan what should be on a view/classic dashboard in the SolarWinds Platform
- Create views/classic dashboards in the SolarWinds Platform Web Console for your SolarWinds Platform products
- Add widgets to SolarWinds Platform views, or classic dashboards
- Divide content into subviews for SolarWinds Platform products
- Optimize SolarWinds Platform views/classic dashboards for TV screens or mobile devices
- Limit objects on a classic dashboard/view in the SolarWinds Platform
- Use a classic dashboard/view as a template in the SolarWinds Platform
- Delete views/dashboards in the SolarWinds Platform
- Specify views/classic dashboards for device types in the SolarWinds Platform
- Widget configuration examples in the SolarWinds Platform
- Add external websites to the SolarWinds Platform
- Customize the Custom Summary view/classic dashboard in the SolarWinds Platform
- SolarWinds Platform Web Console and chart settings for the SolarWinds Platform
- Customize charts in the SolarWinds Platform Web Console for the SolarWinds Platform
- Customize modern dashboards
- Configure KPI widgets for modern dashboards
- Configure Map widgets for modern dashboards
- Configure proportional widgets for modern dashboards
- Configure Risk Score widgets for modern dashboards
- Configure table widgets for modern dashboards
- Configure timeseries widgets for modern dashboards
- Edit modern dashboards and widgets
- Configure tabs for modern dashboards
- Global filters on modern dashboards
- SWQL examples for new widgets
- Clone and duplicate modern dashboards
- Import and export modern dashboards
- Revert system dashboards back to the default state
- Customize the SolarWinds Platform Web Console look for the SolarWinds Platform
- Intelligent Maps for SolarWinds Platform products
- Define what users can access and do in Intelligent Maps
- View details for SolarWinds Platform entities on Intelligent Maps
- Work with entities in auto-generated Intelligent Maps in the Map subview
- Adjust auto-generated Intelligent Maps in the SolarWinds Platform
- Understand connections on Intelligent Maps in the SolarWinds Platform
- Create and edit Intelligent Maps
- Clone Intelligent Maps
- Create nested maps in Intelligent Maps
- Create wireless heat maps with Intelligent Maps
- Import maps
- Add Intelligent Maps to views as a widget
- Use Intelligent Maps in alerts and reports
- Use Intelligent Maps to view historical events
- View monitored objects on Worldwide map or on Network Atlas maps in the SolarWinds Platform
- Display the Worldwide Map in the SolarWinds Platform
- Network Atlas for the SolarWinds Platform
- Install Network Atlas for the SolarWinds Platform
- Start Network Atlas for the SolarWinds Platform
- Create network maps for the SolarWinds Platform in Network Atlas
- Add objects on a Network Atlas map for the SolarWinds Platform
- Automatically connect objects on Network Atlas maps in the SolarWinds Platform with ConnectNow
- Connect objects on Network Atlas maps manually in the SolarWinds Platform
- Reshape Network Atlas map links for the SolarWinds Platform
- Configure the display of connections on Network Atlas maps for the SolarWinds Platform
- Determine interface status in connections on Network Atlas maps for the SolarWinds Platform
- Specify interfaces that determine the status of connections on Network Atlas maps for the SolarWinds Platform
- Display interface performance in links on Network Atlas maps for the SolarWinds Platform
- Add a background to Network Atlas maps for the SolarWinds Platform
- Save Network Atlas maps for the SolarWinds Platform
- Open maps for the SolarWinds Platform in Network Atlas
- Advanced mapping techniques in Network Atlas for the SolarWinds Platform
- Zoom in and out of a Network Atlas map
- Create nested maps in the Network Atlas
- Display the status of child objects on Network Atlas maps, and change metric thresholds
- Add independent map objects and floating labels into Network Atlas maps
- Change the appearance of objects on Network Atlas maps
- Paste custom icons from the Windows clipboard into Network Atlas maps
- Add custom icons from graphics files to Network Atlas maps
- Customize the width, color, and line styles of network links in Network Atlas maps
- Customize labels on Network Atlas maps
- Customize the page that opens when you click on a Network Atlas map object
- Link or embed Network Atlas maps in web pages using the map URL
- Customize map tooltips in the SolarWinds Platform
- Set when a Network Atlas map is displayed as Up on parent maps using the Up status threshold
- Display restricted nodes on Network Atlas maps in the SolarWinds Platform for users with account limitations
- Advanced layouts in Network Atlas maps
- Display Network Atlas maps in the SolarWinds Platform Web Console
- Manage and view reports in the SolarWinds Platform
- Predefined reports in the SolarWinds Platform
- Modify an existing web-based report for the SolarWinds Platform
- Create a web-based report in the SolarWinds Platform
- Add content to a web-based report in the SolarWinds Platform
- Customize a chart for SolarWinds Platform reports
- Customize a table for web-based reports
- Customize a web-based report layout in the SolarWinds Platform
- Restrict who can access reports in the SolarWinds Platform
- Generate reports in the SolarWinds Platform on a schedule
- Export and import reports in the SolarWinds Platform
- Troubleshoot reports
- Create custom monitors in the SolarWinds Platform
- Management Information Base (MIB) in the SolarWinds Platform
- Monitor custom statistics based on OIDs with Universal Device Pollers in the SolarWinds Platform
- Define a custom statistic to monitor in the SolarWinds Platform
- Select SolarWinds Platform nodes or interfaces to poll a custom statistic
- Transform poller results in the SolarWinds Platform
- Create pollers by duplicating and adjusting pollers in the SolarWinds Platform
- Import UnDP pollers to the SolarWinds Platform
- Export UnDP pollers from the SolarWinds Platform
- Temporarily suspend collecting statistics for pollers in the SolarWinds Platform
- Define UnDP Warning and Critical thresholds in the SolarWinds Platform
- View Universal Device Poller statistics in the SolarWinds Platform
- View UnDP status on Network Atlas maps in the SolarWinds Platform
- Update the SolarWinds MIB Database for the SolarWinds Platform
- Manage unique devices on the network with the SolarWinds Platform
- Device Studio technologies in the SolarWinds Platform
- Create pollers in Device Studio for the SolarWinds Platform
- Define object identifiers (OIDs) that do not exist in the SolarWinds MIB database for the SolarWinds Platform
- What is the SNMP Get Type?
- What is a formula?
- Formulas used for transforming Device Studio poller results in the SolarWinds Platform
- Test Device Studio pollers in the SolarWinds Platform
- Monitor devices with the SolarWinds Platform using THWACK community pollers
- Why can't I connect to THWACK from my SolarWinds Platform?
- Assign Device Studio pollers to monitored devices in the SolarWinds Platform
- Scan monitored objects in the SolarWinds Platform to verify if the OIDs match
- Access nodes using HTTP, SSH, and Telnet in the SolarWinds Platform
- Optimize and scale SolarWinds Platform products
- Troubleshoot Orion Deployment issues with Active Diagnostics
- Know the environment monitored with the SolarWinds Platform
- What devices to monitor with SolarWinds Platform and what do you need to know about them?
- Optimize polling engines in your SolarWinds Platform deployment
- Optimize the database used by SolarWinds Platform products
- Optimize the performance of the SolarWinds Platform Web Console
- Don't forget about maintaining your SolarWinds Platform deployment
- Collect diagnostics from the SolarWinds Platform Web Console
- Secure Configuration for the SolarWinds Platform
- URLs to allow-list in firewalls to enable in SolarWinds Platform (self-hosted)
- SolarWinds Platform features affected by Internet access
- SQL Server configuration best practices for SolarWinds Platform products
- High Availability in SolarWinds Platform products
- Disaster recovery in the SolarWinds Platform
- How failovers work
- When do I use a VIP or a virtual hostname?
- Which IP address is used as the source when using a VIP?
- SolarWinds Platform High Availability requirements
- SolarWinds Platform High Availability deployment walk-through
- Set up the standby server
- Activate SolarWinds Platform High Availability pool licenses
- Set up a SolarWinds Platform High Availability pool
- What is a DNS Zone?
- What are Transaction Signatures?
- Choose the server you want to be active in the SolarWinds Platform
- Configure SolarWinds Platform High Availability settings
- Set up the default SolarWinds Platform High Availability email for SolarWinds Platform products
- Configure alerts for other DNS types
- Modify additional SolarWinds components when using SolarWinds Platform High Availability
- Set up High Availability pools with multiple active and standby servers (HA multi-clustering)
- Disable or delete HA pools, force a failover, or update an HA pool for SolarWinds Platform products
- Critical third-party software components in SolarWinds Platform
- SolarWinds approach to comprehensive Exchange monitoring
SolarWinds Platform High Availability deployment walk-through
This topic applies only to the following products:
SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted
DPAIM — EOC — IPAM — LA — NAM — NCM — NPM — NTA — SAM — SCM — SRM — UDT — VMAN — VNQM — WPM
The following provides a high-level walk-through of how to set up high availability protection on your main server or additional polling engines.
Before you begin, review the requirements and how to choose a VIP address or virtual hostname.
- Build a standby server. SolarWinds recommends that your standby server has similar or the same specifications as the primary server.
- Open port 5671 (TCP) on the primary and standby servers for both incoming and outgoing directions.
- Open ports 4369 and 25672 (TCP) on the main SolarWinds Platform server and its standby server. These ports are not required when protecting Additional polling engines.
- Download and install the secondary server software.
- Activate your HA pool licenses.
- Create your HA pool using either a VIP or virtual hostname.
To use an AlwaysOn SQL Availability Group as the SolarWinds Platform database, the SolarWinds Platform server must be configured to use the SQL listener. For information on creating and configuring the SQL listener, please refer to this Microsoft documentation (© Microsoft 2018, available at http://www.microsoft.com/, obtained on March 6, 2018).
Optional deployment steps
Depending on your network and device configuration, you may need to perform some of the following steps.
- Modify the firewall settings to allow communication to and from the VIP address or virtual hostname and the primary and secondary servers.
- For single subnet deployment, modify your DNS to point your SolarWinds Platform Web Console's host name to the VIP.
- Modify where devices send data to and receive data from.
- Route all traffic to and from the VIP or virtual hostname.
You cannot use a VIP in multi-subnet deployments.
Depending on your network setup, you may be able to change your primary server's IP address to another address in the subnet and use the already established SolarWinds IP address as the VIP address. See When do I use a VIP or a virtual hostname? for more information.
- Route all traffic to and from the IP addresses of the primary and secondary IP addresses. This can be done for both single and multi-subnet deployments.
- Route all traffic to and from the VIP or virtual hostname.
You cannot use a VIP in multi-subnet deployments.
- Modify additional SolarWinds components to communicate to the HA pool.
Learn more:
Activate SolarWinds Platform High Availability pool licenses
Set up a SolarWinds Platform High Availability pool
What are Transaction Signatures?
Choose the server you want to be active in the SolarWinds Platform
Configure SolarWinds Platform High Availability settings
Set up the default SolarWinds Platform High Availability email for SolarWinds Platform products
Configure alerts for other DNS types
Modify additional SolarWinds components when using SolarWinds Platform High Availability
Set up High Availability pools with multiple active and standby servers (HA multi-clustering)