Use an Additional Web Server

With an Additional Web Server, you can access the SolarWinds Platform Web Console remotely, from a location other than your primary SolarWinds Platform server.

Deploying an Additional polling engine might be helpful in the following cases:

• The number of users logged in to the SolarWinds Platform Web Console at the same time is close to 50.

• SolarWinds Platform Web Console is having performance issues.

  The SolarWinds Platform Web Console performance depends on the performance of the computer where you open the browser. See Browser requirements in the latest system requirements.

Learn more

• Read Optimize the performance of the SolarWinds Platform Web Console in the SolarWinds Platform Optimization Guide to find out how to improve the performance of your web server.

• Read the Scalability Engine Guidelines to find out whether you need to scale your environment, what deployment options you have and what the scalability limits of your SolarWinds deployment are.

• Find out how to deploy Additional Web Servers using 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