NTM requirements

The following tables provide the minimum requirements for SolarWinds NTM.

Hardware/ Software	Requirements
Operating System	Microsoft Windows 10, 8.1, 8, and 7 Microsoft Windows Server 2003 SP2 and R2 (32/64-bit) Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Microsoft Windows Server 2012 and R2 Microsoft Windows Server 2016 NTM supports FIPS. Languages: English German Japanese Chinese
CPU Speed	2.66 GHz or faster Device discovery and map rendering are CPU-intensive. SolarWinds recommends installing NTM on the fastest CPU PC available.
Hard Drive Space	10 GB
Memory	500 MB
Application Framework	.NET 3.5 SP1 .NET 4.0 .NET 4.5 If .NET is missing, NTM installs .NET.

Port requirements

Port	Proto- col	Service or process	Direction	Description
161	UDP	SolarWinds Network Topology Job Scheduler	Bidirectional	The port used for SNMP statistics collection.
443	TCP	SolarWinds Network Topology Job Scheduler	Bidirectional	The port used to communicate with VMware Virtual Center or ESX server.
17778	HTTPS	SolarWinds Network Topology Job Scheduler	Outbound	The port used to access the SolarWinds Information Service (SWIS) API for exporting maps from a scheduled discovery to Network Atlas.
1024 and 65535	TCP/UDP	SolarWinds Network Topology Job Scheduler	Bidirectional	WMI communications use a port between 1024 and 65535. See Microsoft Windows for specifications. Create firewall exceptions that allow TCP/UDP traffic on ports 1024 - 65535 to enable mapping monitored objects that use WMI.