LA 2020.2.6 system requirements

Release Date: July 15, 2021

SolarWinds strongly recommends that you install the SolarWinds Platform on a server that is neither public, nor internet-facing. To learn about best practices for configuring your SolarWinds Platform installation securely, see Secure Configuration for the SolarWinds Platform.

The following are the system requirements for Log Analyzer (LA) 2020.2.6. This version of LA uses Orion Platform 2020.2.6. See Orion Platform system requirements for details.

If you are installing a dedicated log and event database for Orion Platform Log Viewer, reference these requirements.

In addition to the requirements below, most LA monitoring requires the monitored server be polled by an Orion Agent for Windows.

Type	Requirements
Operating System	Windows Server 2019 Windows Server 2016 Windows Server 2012 R2 Microsoft Windows 10 (evaluation only) Microsoft Windows 8.1 (evaluation only)
Operating System language	English (UK or US) German Japanese
Orion Platform Web Console browser	Orion Platform supports the two latest versions of the following web browsers available on the release date: Firefox Chrome Edge (79 or higher) In LA 2020.2 and later, some pages are not compatible with IE11. If you are using IE11, you will see a warning message on incompatible pages. SolarWinds recommends using a different browser (such as Chrome, Firefox, or Microsoft Edge) for the best user experience with LA.
LA database	Physical server or virtual machine Quad core processor or better 16 GB RAM 1 x 1 GB dedicated NIC Windows Server 2016 or 2019, Standard or Datacenter Edition Additionally, Azure SQL is available to use as a database server for LA. Disk requirements: 100-130 GB/day (@1000 EPS) on local NTFS disk Estimate required storage size based on EPS expectation and desired retention. For example, 1 TB capacity for default retention period (7 days). Microsoft SQL Server 2016 SP1 or later Users may experience performance degradation while using synchronous-commit mode for SQL availability groups on Log Analyzer's database. For high-load environments, asynchronous-commit mode is strongly recommended. Microsoft SQL Server Express SolarWinds recommends using SQL Server Express only in evaluations. However, if used in a production environment, consider the following: The LA database will have a 10 GB limit. This means that in case of 1000 EPS, only 2-3 hours of data can be saved. For 7 days of data (default retention) only 15 EPS on average can be collected. Supported collations: English with collation setting SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS German with collation setting German_PhoneBook_CI_AS Japanese with collation setting Japanese_CI_AS
Authentication	Either mixed-mode or Windows authentication. If you require SQL authentication, you must enable mixed mode on your SQL server.
LA/Orion Platform server: Do not install Orion Platform products on the same server as SolarWinds Access Rights Manager (ARM).
CPU	Quad core processor or better Required: 4 cores Recommended: 8 cores Do not enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
Hard drive space	15 GB minimum 40 GB recommended Two 146 GB 15K (RAID 1/Mirrored Settings) hard drives are recommended with a dedicated drive for the server operating system and SolarWinds installation. During upgrades, the installer needs 2 GB of free space. 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.
Memory	8 GB minimum 16 GB recommended

LA port requirements

Ports 4369, 25672, and 5672 are opened by default on the main server for RabbitMQ messaging. These ports can be blocked by the firewall. When running SolarWinds High Availability, ensure ports 4369 and 25672 are open.
RPC ports > 1024 (TCP, bidirectional) is used by the Job Engine v2 process to communicate with Windows nodes.

SolarWinds does not recommend the use of HTTP (Port 80). Please use HTTPS (Port 443) to ensure that any web-related connections are secure.

Port	Protocol	Service/ Process	Direction	Description	Encryption
user-defined, default: 22	SSH	SolarWinds Job Engine v2 IIS	Outbound from the Orion Platform server to the device	Port for accessing ASA devices through CLI	Device-based
25	TCP	SolarWinds Alerting Service V2	Outbound	SMTP port for non-encrypted messages	n/a
53	UDP	SolarWinds Job Engine v2	Bi- directional	Resolving DNS queries	n/a
80	TCP	IIS	Inbound	Default additional web server port. If you specify any port other than 80, you must include that port in the URL used to access the web console. For example, if you specify an IP address of 192.168.0.3 and port 8080, the URL used to access the web console is `http://192.168.0.3:8080`. Open the port to enable communication from your computers to the Orion Platform Web Console. The port might also be used for Cisco UCS monitoring.	n/a
135	TCP	Microsoft EPMAP (DCE/RPC Locator service)	Bi- directional	Required for devices polled via WMI. Used to initiate communication with the remotely managed host.
161	UDP	SolarWinds Job Engine v2 SolarWinds Cortex	Bi- directional	Send and receive SNMP information	SNMP v1 and v2 are unencrypted. SNMP v3 uses AES and 3DES encryption.
162	UDP	SolarWinds Trap Service SNMP Informs	Inbound	Receive trap messages	SNMP v1 and v2 are unencrypted. SNMP v3 uses AES and 3DES encryption.
443	TCP	IIS	Inbound	Default port for https binding.	SSL
465	TCP	SolarWinds Alerting Service V2	Outbound	SMTP port used to send TLS-enabled email alert actions	SSL
514	UDP	SolarWinds Syslog Service	Inbound	Receive syslog messages	n/a
587	TCP	SolarWinds Alerting Service V2	Outbound	SMTP port used to send TLS-enabled email alert actions	TLS
1433	TCP	SolarWinds Alerting Service V2 SolarWinds Administration Service SolarWinds Information Service SolarWinds Information Service V3 Orion Platform Module Engine	Outbound	Communication between the Orion Platform server and the SQL Server.	n/a
1434	UDP	SolarWinds Alerting Service V2 SolarWinds Administration Service SolarWinds Information Service SolarWinds Information Service V3 Orion Platform Module Engine SQL Server Browse Service	Outbound	Communication with the SQL Server Browser Service to determine how to communicate with certain non-standard SQL Server installations. Required only if your SQL Server is configured to use dynamic ports.	n/a
1468	TCP	SolarWinds Syslog Service	Inbound	Receive syslog messages	n/a
5671	TCP	RabbitMQ	Bi- directional	For encrypted RabbitMQ messaging (AMQP/TLS) into the main polling engine from every Orion Platform server (additional polling engines, HA servers, or additional web servers). Sending messages to RabbitMQ.	TLS 1.2
6514	TCP	SolarWinds Syslog Service	Inbound	Receive syslog messages	TLS
17777	TCP	Orion Platform Module Engine SolarWinds Information Service SolarWinds Information Service V3 SolarWinds Cortex	Bi- directional	Communication between services and Orion Platform module traffic. Communication between the Orion Platform Web Console and the polling engines. Communication between the main server and pool members.	RSA handshake, AES 256 communication using WCF TLS 1.2 with Cortex
17778	HTTPS	SolarWinds Agent	Inbound to the Orion Platform server	Required for access to the SWIS API and agent communication	SSL

See SolarWinds Port requirements for a comprehensive list of port requirements for SolarWinds products.

Optional, individual components, such as SolarWinds agents and High Availability, have additional port requirements.

LA agent requirements

Agent software is free. Licensing occurs through your product and is usually based on the number of monitored elements.

Before you deploy agents to a target computer, review the following system requirements.

Type	Windows
Operating System	Only 64-bit operating systems are supported. Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Windows Server 2012 Windows Server 2012 R2 Windows Server 2016 Windows Server 2019 Windows 7 Windows 7 SP1 Windows 8 Windows 8.1 Windows 10 Only Pro, Enterprise, and Ultimate workstation operating systems editions are supported.
Hard drive space	Approximately 100 MB of hard drive space on the target computer.
Other software	The following software packages are installed by the agent installer if necessary: Microsoft Visual C++ 2013 Redistributable Package for 32-bit or 64-bit .NET Framework support On operating systems that support .NET Framework 4.8, all Windows Agent Plugins are migrated to .NET 4.8. Upon upgrade to 2019.4, .NET 4.8 is deployed automatically to operating systems that support .NET 4.8. .NET Framework 4.5 is deployed for Windows Server 2012 with no .NET Framework installed .NET Framework 4.0 is deployed automatically when installing Agents on Windows Server 2008 R2 or earlier or Windows Core)
Security	The VeriSign Root Certificate Authority (CA) must be current. This is required because the agent software is signed using a VeriSign certificate. After the agent is installed, it runs as a Local System account and does not require administrative permissions to function.
Latency	Agents can tolerate up to 500 ms of latency between the remote computer and the Orion Platform.

Cloud instance requirements for the LA database in Azure

The cloud instance requirements match the requirements for the LA database server above.

Azure Storage Disk volumes are not your dedicated hardware. Consider using Azure Reserved Instances of storage disk volumes for SQL servers.

Cloud instance requirements for the LA database in AWS

You can install Log Analyzer as part of a small deployment with AWS RDS. Use the the Medium Deployment guidelines as seen in the Multi-module system guidelines.