Install or Upgrade WPM

Review the WPM release notes and system requirements before installing or upgrading WPM.

SolarWinds strongly recommends that you install the SolarWinds Platform on a server that is neither public, nor internet-facing. To learn about best practices for configuring your SolarWinds Platform installation securely, see Secure Configuration for the SolarWinds Platform.

FIPS 140-2 support

It's important to understand that WPM is not a fully FIPS-compliant product because some of its components, namely WPM Recorder and WPM Browser, are not not FIPS compliant by design. These components are based on the Chromium engine, which is not FIPS compliant.

If FIPS compliance is critical to your business, you have the option of deactivating (as well as activating) WPM in the SolarWinds Platform Web Console License Manager. In addition, both the WPM Recorder installer and the WPM Player installer include steps that inform you that they are not fully FIPS-compliant products. The installers require your consent to proceed with installation. You can install or uninstall WPM Recorder or WPM Player in an environment with FIPS mode enabled. For more information, see this topic about FIPS 140-2 support.

Install WPM

• To install WPM on premises, see the SolarWinds Platform products Installation and Upgrade Guide.
• To deploy WPM in the cloud, see:
  • Deploy SolarWinds Platform products to Amazon Web Services
  • Deploy SolarWinds Platform products to Microsoft Azure
  • Install SolarWinds Platform products using Azure Marketplace
  • Install SolarWinds Platform products using Amazon Marketplace
  • Scalability Engine Guidelines for SolarWinds Platform products
• After installing the primary WPM application, you can deploy Web Transaction Recorders and WPM Players to remote systems to get an accurate sampling of your websites and services from the viewpoint of your end users. See the WPM Getting Started Guide for details.

Upgrade WPM

If you are on a version earlier than WPM 2020.2.6, first upgrade to 2020.2.6 and then upgrade to 2024.4.

You can upgrade WPM directly from the SolarWinds Platform Web Console (Settings > My Deployment). Downloading the SolarWinds Installer is no longer necessary.

• Do you need to migrate as part of your upgrade? See the Migration Guide.
• To upgrade WPM and other SolarWinds Platform products, see the SolarWinds Platform products Installation and Upgrade Guide.
• To upgrade your scalability engines (Additional Polling Engines, Additional Web Servers, High Availability servers), see Options for upgrading scalability engines.

After upgrading WPM on the SolarWinds Platform server, be sure to upgrade any WPM Recorders and WPM Players installed on remote systems. See Deploy WPM to remote systems in the WPM Getting Started Guide.

Migrate WPM

• Do you need to move your WPM polling engines or database to a different server? See the Migration Guide. Be sure to update SEUM agents to point to the new EngineIDs, as described here.