Install or Upgrade WPM

Current version: WPM 2020.2.5

Released: March 25, 2021

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

Install WPM

• To install WPM on premises, see the Orion Platform Products Installation and Upgrade Guide. You can also install an evaluation version of SAM.
• To deploy WPM in the cloud, see:
  • Deploy SolarWinds Orion Platform products to Amazon Web Services
  • Deploy SolarWinds Orion Platform products to Microsoft Azure
  • Install Orion Platform products using Azure Marketplace
  • Install Orion Platform products using Amazon Marketplace
  • Scalability Engine Guidelines for SolarWinds 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

Starting with WPM 3.0, you can upgrade WPM directly from the Orion Web Console (Settings > My Orion Deployment). Downloading the Orion Installer is no longer necessary.

• Do you need to migrate as part of your upgrade? See the Migration Guide.
• To upgrade WPM and other Orion Platform products, see the Orion 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 Orion 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.