Orion Platform 2018.4 Requirements
Release Date: December 4, 2018
SolarWinds strongly recommends that you install the Orion Platform on a server that is neither public, nor internet-facing. To learn about best practices for configuring your Orion Platform installation securely, see Secure Configuration for the SolarWinds Platform.
Important: These system requirements define the minimum requirements for all products on Orion Platform 2018.4. Products may have different requirements, such as OS or memory, and may differ per license level.
- Software requirements
- Account privileges
- Port requirements
- Hardware requirements
- Database requirements
- Amazon Web Service requirements
For additional information on requirements and configurations, see the Multi-module system guidelines. You should also review your product administration guides and release notes for the exact product requirements beyond these minimums.
We also recommend reviewing the Orion Platform 2018.4 Release Notes.
Software requirements
- SolarWinds only supports installing the Orion agent on domain controllers. Do not install any other SolarWinds products on domain controllers.
- SolarWinds only supports installing the Orion agent on the same server as a Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Exchange, or Research in Motion (RIM) Blackberry server. Sharing a database server with those applications is not supported.
The following table lists software requirements and recommendations for a SolarWinds installation on both physical and virtual computers.
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Operating system |
End-of-support notice: Orion Platform 2018.4 products are no longer compatible with Windows Server 2012 and 2012 R2. To use the new features introduced in Orion Platform 2018.4, upgrade your
Desktop operating systems, such as Windows 10, 64-bit (not Standard Edition), are supported for evaluation environments only. To make a smooth transition from your evaluation to production deployment, SolarWinds recommends that you avoid installing evaluations on desktop operating systems. |
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Operating system languages |
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IP address version |
IPv4 IPv6 Dual stack CIDR notation is not supported for IPv6 addresses. |
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Web server |
If you are not using Windows Authentication, make sure the Anonymous Authentication is enabled for the SolarWinds NetPerfMon website. Anonymous Authentication is used with the default forms-based authentication. IIS is installed by the SolarWinds installer. You can install this software manually to reduce your installation time. |
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.NET Framework |
.NET 4.6.2 or later Run the same version of. NET on your primary server and any Additional Polling Engines or Additional Web Servers in the environment. |
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Services |
If you are using the Syslog or SNMP Traps feature of the Orion Platform, make sure the following services are running after installation is complete to collect Syslog messages and traps:
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Web console browser |
Orion Platform products support two most recent versions of the following web browsers available at the release date:
Orion Platform products also support the following browsers:
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Account privileges
SolarWinds recommends that Orion administrators have local administrator privileges on the Orion server to ensure full functionality of local SolarWinds tools.
Orion user accounts limited to the Orion Web Console do not require local administrator privileges.
Server port requirements
- Ports 4369, 25672, and 5671 are opened by default on the main server for RabbitMQ messaging. These ports can be blocked by the firewall. When running SolarWinds High Availability, ensure ports 4369 and 25672 are open.
- RPC ports > 1024 (TCP, bidirectional) is used by the Job Engine v2 process to communicate with Windows nodes.
SolarWinds does not recommend the use of HTTP (Port 80). Please use HTTPS (Port 443) to ensure that any web-related connections are secure.
Port | Protocol | Service/ Process |
Direction | Description | Encryption |
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user defined, default: 22 |
SSH |
SolarWinds Job Engine v2 IIS |
Outbound from the Orion server to the device | Port for accessing ASA devices through CLI | Device-based |
25 |
TCP |
SolarWinds Alerting Service V2 | Outbound |
SMTP port for non-encrypted messages |
n/a |
53 | UDP | SolarWinds Job Engine v2 | Bidirectional | Resolving DNS queries | n/a |
80 |
TCP |
IIS | Inbound |
Default additional web server port. If you specify any port other than 80, you must include that port in the URL used to access the web console. For example, if you specify an IP address of 192.168.0.3 and port 8080, the URL used to access the web console is http://192.168.0.3:8080. Open the port to enable communication from your computers to the Orion Web Console. The port might also be used for Cisco UCS monitoring. |
n/a |
161 |
UDP |
SolarWinds Job Engine v2 | Outbound |
Sending and receiving SNMP information. |
SNMP v1 and v2 are unencrypted. SNMP v3 uses AES & 3DES encryption. |
162 |
UDP |
SolarWinds Trap Service | Inbound |
Receiving trap messages |
n/a |
443 |
TCP |
IIS | Inbound |
Default port for https binding. |
SSL |
465 |
TCP |
SolarWinds Alerting Service V2 | Outbound |
SMTP port used to send TLS-enabled email alert actions. |
SSL |
514 |
UDP |
SolarWinds Syslog Service | Inbound |
Receiving syslog messages |
n/a |
587 |
TCP |
SolarWinds Alerting Service V2 | Outbound |
SMTP port used to send TLS-enabled email alert actions. |
TLS |
1433 |
TCP |
SolarWinds Alerting Service V2 SolarWinds Administration Service SolarWinds Information Service SolarWinds Information Service V3 SolarWinds Orion Module Engine |
Outbound | Communication between the SolarWinds server and the SQL Server. | n/a |
1434 |
UDP |
SolarWinds Alerting Service V2 SolarWinds Administration Service SolarWinds Information Service SolarWinds Information Service V3 SolarWinds Orion Module Engine |
Outbound | Communication with the SQL Server Browser Service to determine how to communicate with certain non-standard SQL Server installations. Required only if your SQL Server is configured to use dynamic ports. | n/a |
1801 |
TCP |
MSMQ | Bidirectional |
MSMQ WCF binding |
WCF |
5671 |
TCP |
RabbitMQ | Bidirectional |
For encrypted RabbitMQ messaging (AMQP/TLS) into the main polling engine from all Orion servers. Sending messages to RabbitMQ. |
TLS 1.2 |
17777 |
TCP |
SolarWinds Orion Module Engine SolarWinds Information Service SolarWinds Information Service V3 SolarWinds Cortex |
Bidirectional | Communication between services and SolarWinds Orion module traffic. Communication between the Orion Web Console and the polling engine. Communication between the main server and pool members. |
RSA handshake, AES 256 communication using WCF TLS 1.2 with Cortex |
17778 |
HTTPS |
SolarWinds Agent | Inbound to the Orion server |
Required for access to the SWIS API and agent communication |
SSL |
Hardware requirements
The following table lists minimum hardware requirements and recommendations for your SolarWinds server on physical computers, virtual computers, and cloud instances.
Use the minimum hardware configuration if you are evaluating the product or do not anticipate heavy usage.
SolarWinds strongly recommends using the recommended hardware configuration to avoid potential performance issues caused by a heavy load or custom configurations such as increased data retention or more frequent polling intervals.
Installing multiple Orion Platform products on the same computer may change the requirements.
Hardware requirements are listed by deployment size, based on the SolarWinds NPM license levels.
CPU recommendations for XL deployments use the PassMark Score. To learn more, see Pass Mark Performance Test (Copyright © 2018 PassMark® Software, obtained at https://www.cpubenchmark.net/high_end_cpus.html on April 9, 2018).
Require- ments |
SMALL |
Medium SL2000 |
Large SLX |
XL (Up to 400,000 monitored elements) |
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CPU |
Quad core processor or better |
Quad core processor or better |
Quad core processor or better |
CPUs with a total combined PassMark score of 7,000 or higher |
Do not enable Physical Address Extension (PAE). |
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Hard drive space |
10 GB minimum 20 GB recommended |
15 GB minimum 40 GB recommended |
30 GB minimum 40 GB recommended |
40 GB minimum 50 GB recommended Read/Write I/O performance of 800 IOPS |
SolarWinds recommends two 146 GB 15K (RAID 1/Mirrored Settings) hard drives with a dedicated drive for the server operating system and SolarWinds installation. Some common files may need to be installed on the same drive as your server operating system. You may want to move or expand the Windows temporary directories. |
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Memory |
6 GB minimum 8 GB recommended |
8 GB minimum 16 GB recommended |
16 GB minimum 32 GB recommended |
16 GB minimum 32 GB recommended |
Database server (SQL Server) requirements
The following table lists software and hardware requirements for your SolarWinds Orion database server using NPM license levels.
The Orion server and the SolarWinds Orion database must use separate servers.
If you install on a virtual machine, you must maintain your SQL Server database on a separate, physical drive.
As of Orion Platform 2018.2, you can use Amazon RDS for SQL Server as your database server.
Require- ments |
Small SL100, SL250, SL500 |
Medium SL2000 |
Large SLX |
XL (up to 400,000 elements) |
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SQL Server |
Express, Standard, or Enterprise versions of the following:
SolarWinds recommends that you use Express versions only for evaluations, very small environments, and EOC. |
Enterprise versions of supported SQL Servers:
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End-of-support notice: Orion Platform 2018.4 products are no longer Recommendations
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SQL Server collation |
We support CI database on an CS SQL Server. We do not support case-sensitive databases. |
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CPU |
Quad core processor or better |
Dual quad core processor or better |
Dual quad core processor or better |
CPUs with a total combined PassMark score of 32,000 or higher |
Hard drive space |
20 GB minimum 40 GB recommended |
50 GB minimum 100 GB recommended |
100 GB minimum 400 GB recommended* |
500 GB minimum 1TB recommended
Read/Write I/O performance of 30,000 IOPs 190,000 IOPS or better recommended 1 Gbit dedicated NIC
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Some common files may need to be installed on the same drive as your server operating system. You may want to move or expand the Windows or SQL temporary directories. |
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Memory |
8 GB minimum 16 GB recommended |
16 GB minimum 64 GB recommended |
64 GB minimum 128 GB recommended |
256 GB minimum 512 GB recommended |
Authentication |
Either mixed-mode or Windows authentication. If you require SQL authentication, you must enable mixed mode on your SQL server. |
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Other software |
SolarWinds recommends you install the SQL Server Management Studio component on your Orion server. The Installation Wizard installs the following required x86 components if they are not found on your Orion database server:
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* SolarWinds recommends the following hard drive configuration:
- A hardware RAID Controller with a battery backed-up write back cache
- Disk Subsystem 1 Array 1: 2x 146 GB 15K disks RAID 1 (mirroring) for the OS
- Disc Subsystem 2 Array 2: 2x 146 GB 15K disks RAID 1 (Pagefile + Extra Storage)
- Disk Subsystem 3 Array 3: with 6x 15k 146 GB or 300 GB disks configured in a RAID 1+0 array for your SQL MDF and FILEGROUPS.
- Disk Subsystem 4 Array 4: with 4x 15k 146 GB or 300 GB disks configured in a RAID 1+0 array for your SQL LDF Transaction LOG file
- Disk Subsystem 5 Array 5: with 4x 15k 146 GB or 300 GB disks configured in a RAID 1+0 array for your tempdb data file
- Disk Subsystem 6 Array 6: with 4x 15k 146 GB or 300 GB disks configured in a RAID 0 array for your tempdb log file
Amazon Web Service (AWS deployments)
To deploy your Orion Platform using Amazon Web Service, consider using the following templates:
Require- ments |
Small SL100, SL250, SL500 |
Medium SL2000 |
Large SLX |
XL (up to 400,000 elements) |
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Orion Platform server |
m4.large |
m4.xlarge Recommended: m5d.xlarge with SDD drive |
m4.2xlarge Recommended: m5d.2xlarge with SSD |
m5.4xlarge Recommended: m5d.2xlarge with SSD |
SolarWinds Orion database server |
r4.xlarge |
r4.xlarge |
r3.2xlarge Recommended: r5d.xlarge with SSD |
db.r4.8xlarge Recommended: R5d.12xlarge |
Amazon RDS | db.r4.xlarge | db.r4.2xlarge | db.r4.4xlarge | db.r4.8xlarge |
Additional Polling Engines | Only relevant for environments that monitor over 12,000 elements. |
m5.xlarge |