Additional Polling Engines in the SolarWinds Platform
This topic applies to all SolarWinds Platform (self-hosted) products.
With the increasing number of monitored entities in your environment, you might need to scale your SolarWinds Platform deployment.
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Read the Scalability Engine Guidelines to find out how to scale your deployment - whether you need to deploy an Additional Polling Engine, what deployment options you have, and what the scalability limits of your SolarWinds deployment are.
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If you decide to deploy Additional Polling Engines, use the SolarWinds Installer:
- Install scalability engines: Additional Polling Engines, Additional Web Servers, and High Availability servers
- Perform a centralized upgrade: upgrade the primary server and all scalability engines
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Read Optimize polling engines in the SolarWinds Platform Optimization Guide to find out how to improve the polling performance of your deployment.
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Check the health of your deployment for recommendations on how to make your deployment work faster.