LA 2023.2 system requirements
Release Date: April 18, 2023
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 LA 2023.2. This version of LA uses SolarWinds Platform version 2023.2. To upgrade to SolarWinds Platform 2023.2, your current deployment must be version 2020.2 or later. For more information on SolarWinds Platform system requirements, see the SolarWinds Platform requirements.
In addition to the requirements below, most LA monitoring requires the monitored server be polled by a SolarWinds Platform Agent for Windows.
| Type | Requirements |
|---|---|
| Operating System |
|
| Operating System language |
|
| SolarWinds Platform Web Console browser |
SolarWinds Platform supports the two latest versions of the following web browsers available on the release date:
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
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. |
| Authentication | Either mixed-mode or Windows authentication. If you require SQL authentication, you must enable mixed mode on your SQL server. |
|
LA/SolarWinds Platform server: Do not install SolarWinds Platform products on the same server as SolarWinds Access Rights Manager (ARM). |
|
| CPU |
Quad core processor or better
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 |
|
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 SolarWinds 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 |
HTTP default for the SolarWinds Platform Web Console website. 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 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- |
Send and receive SNMP |
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:
|
|
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 SolarWinds Platform Module Engine |
Outbound |
Communication between the SolarWinds Platform server and the SQL Server. |
n/a |
|
1434 |
UDP |
SolarWinds Alerting Service V2 SolarWinds Administration Service SolarWinds Information Service SolarWinds Information Service V3 SolarWinds 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 SolarWinds 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 |
SolarWinds Platform Module Engine SolarWinds Information Service SolarWinds Information Service V3 SolarWinds Cortex |
Bi- directional |
Communication between services and SolarWinds Platform module traffic. Communication between the SolarWinds 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 SolarWinds 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.
Windows agents run as a service.
Before you deploy agents to a target computer, review the following system requirements.
| Type | Windows | Linux |
|---|---|---|
| Operating System |
Only 64-bit operating systems are supported.
Only Pro, Enterprise, and Ultimate workstation operating systems editions are supported. |
Linux distributions not listed above are not 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:
.NET Framework support
|
For Linux, you may need to install the following manually:
Python 3 is deployed automatically to Linux agents. During upgrades, all Linux Agent plugins are migrated to Python 3.
Orion Platform 2019.2 and earlier require Python 2, versions 2.4.3 and later.
|
| 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. |
After the agent is installed, it runs under dedicated swiagent account. Some actions require root access. |
| Latency |
Agents can tolerate up to 500 ms of latency between the remote computer and the SolarWinds Platform server. |
|
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.
| Requirements | Small | Medium | Large | XL |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Log Analyzer Database | See Medium | r3.xlarge | r5d.4xlarge | r5d.4xlarge |