Additional Polling Engines in the SolarWinds Platform
This topic applies to all SolarWinds Platform 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.