Network Performance Monitor Installation and Upgrade Guide

Updated: 3/18/2021

SolarWinds NPM is an Orion Platform product, and it is thus installed using the Orion Installer.

To get the Orion Installer, download NPM or any other Orion Platform product from the SolarWinds Customer Portal or from www.solarwinds.com. The installer is included in the download.

Install NPM

• To install NPM on premises, see the Orion Platform Products Installation and Upgrade Guide. The guide helps you prepare your environment and install NPM using the Orion Installer.

• To deploy NPM in the cloud, see the following topics:
  • Deploy SolarWinds Orion Platform products to Amazon Web Services
  • Deploy SolarWinds Orion Platform products to Microsoft Azure
  • Install Orion Platform products using Azure Marketplace
  • Install Orion Platform products using Amazon Marketplace

Upgrade NPM

Starting with NPM 12.5, you can upgrade NPM directly from the Orion Web Console (Settings > My Orion Deployment). Downloading the Orion Installer is no longer necessary.

• Do you need to migrate as part of your upgrade? See the Migration Guide.
• To upgrade NPM and other Orion Platform products, see the Orion Platform Products Installation and Upgrade Guide.
• To upgrade your scalability engines (Additional Polling Engines, Additional Web Servers, High Availability servers), see Options for upgrading scalability engines.

Migrate NPM

Do you need to move your NPM polling engines or database to a different server? See the SolarWinds Migration Guide.