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SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor 11
Виробник: SolarWinds

SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor 11

Програмне забезпечення SolarWinds Network Performance Monitor є економічним, простим та потужним інструментом, що дозволяє в режимі реального часу відстежувати продуктивність мережі

Software requirements

Do not install NPM on the same server as SolarWinds Access Rights Manager (ARM).

The following table lists software requirements and recommendations for an NPM installation on both physical and virtual computers.

Software Requirements
Operating system
  • Windows Server 2016
  • Windows Server 2019

Desktop operating systems, such as Windows 10, 64-bit Pro or Enterprise, 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.

Support differences between Orion Agents and Orion Platform products

  • You cannot install Orion Platform products on domain controllers. Exception: You can install Orion Agents on domain controllers.
  • You cannot install Orion Platform products or any scalability engines on Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Exchange, or BlackBerry servers. Exception: You can install Orion Agents on the same server as a Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Exchange or Research in Motion (RIM) Blackberry server.

End-of-support notice: Products with Orion Platform 2018.4 and later are no longer compatible with Windows Server 2012 and 2012 R2. To use the new features introduced in Orion Platform 2018.4 or later, upgrade your environment at your earliest convenience.

Operating system languages
  • English (UK or US)
  • German
  • Japanese
  • Simplified Chinese

IP address version

IPv4

IPv6

Dual stack

CIDR notation is not supported for IPv6 addresses.

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.

.NET Framework

.NET 4.8

Run the same version of. NET on your primary server and any Additional Polling Engines or Additional Web Servers in the environment.

.NET 4.8 support was introduced in NPM 12.5 Hotfix 1.

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:

  • SolarWinds Syslog Service
  • SolarWinds Trap Service

Web console browser

Orion Platform products support two most recent versions of the following web browsers available at the release date:

  • Firefox
  • Chrome 

Orion Platform products also support the following browsers:

  • Microsoft Internet Explorer 11 with Active scripting

    Do not enable Enterprise Mode on Internet Explorer. This setting forces Internet Explorer to emulate version 7, which is not supported.

  • Microsoft Edge

Account privileges

SolarWinds recommends that SolarWinds Orion administrators have local administrator privileges on the Orion server to ensure full functionality of local SolarWinds tools.

SolarWinds Orion user accounts limited to the Orion Web Console do not require local administrator privileges.

Server port requirements

  • Ports 4369, 25672, and 5672 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.

 

PortPro-
tocol
Service/
Process
DirectionDescriptionEncryption
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 Bi-
directional
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 ishttp://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
135 TCP Microsoft EPMAP (DCE/RPC Locator service) Bi-
directional
Required for devices polled via WMI. Used to initiate communication with the remotely managed host.  

161

UDP

SolarWinds Job Engine v2

SolarWinds Cortex

Bi-
directional

Send and receive SNMP
information

SNMP v1 and v2 are unencrypted. SNMP v3 uses AES and 3DES encryption.

162

UDP

SolarWinds Trap Service

SNMP Informs

Inbound

Receive 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

Receive 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 Orion 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

SQL Server Browse Service

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

Bi-
directional

For encrypted RabbitMQ messaging (AMQP/TLS) into the main polling engine from all Orion servers (additional polling engines, HA servers, or additional web servers).

Sending messages to RabbitMQ.

TLS 1.2

17777

TCP

SolarWinds Orion Module Engine

SolarWinds Information Service

SolarWinds Information Service V3

SolarWinds Cortex

Bi-
directional

Communication between services and SolarWinds Orion module traffic.

Communication between the Orion Web Console and the polling engines.

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

See SolarWinds Port requirements for a comprehensive list of port requirements for SolarWinds products.

Optional, individual components, such as Orion agents and High Availability, have additional port requirements.

Hardware requirements

The following table lists minimum hardware requirements and recommendations for your SolarWinds Orion 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 suggests 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 SolarWindsOrion 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
SL100, SL250, SL500

Medium

SL2000

Large

SLX

XL (Up to 400,000 monitored elements)

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).

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

Two 146 GB 15K (RAID 1/Mirrored Settings) hard drives are recommended 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.

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 SolarWinds 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 2019.2, you can use Azure SQL as your database server.

As of Orion Platform 2018.2, you can use Amazon RDS as your database server.

Require-
ments

 

Small

SL100, SL250, SL500

Medium

SL2000

Large

SLX

XL (up to 400,000 elements)

SQL Server

Express, Standard, or Enterprise versions of the following:

  • SQL Server 2014
  • SQL Server 2014 SP1
  • SQL Server 2014 SP2
  • SQL Server 2016
  • SQL Server 2016 SP1
  • SQL Server 2016 SP2
  • SQL Server 2017 (including installations on Linux)
  • SQL Server 2019

SolarWinds recommends that you use Express versions only for evaluations, very small environments, and EOC.

Enterprise versions of supported SQL Servers:

  • 2014
  • 2014 SP1
  • 2014 SP2
  • 2016
  • 2016 SP1
  • 2016 SP2
  • 2017 (including installations on Linux)
  • SQL Server 2019

End-of-support notice: Products running on Orion Platform 2018.4 and later are no longer compatible with SQL Server 2012, 2012 SP1, 2012 SP2, 2012 SP3, and 2012 SP4. To use the new features introduced in Orion Platform 2018.4 and later, upgrade your environment at your earliest convenience.

Recommendations

  • Use 64-bit version of SQL Server.
  • Use the Simple database recovery mode to ensure best performance.
  • You can set the database recovery model to Full Recovery if your Orion Database is hosted on a SQL Cluster or if you use Always On Availability. However, you must back up your database regularly and ensure that volume you store your transaction log has free space that is at least equal to or greater than the size of your Orion database. Your transaction logs will continue to grow indefinitely until a database backup is performed and the transactions committed to the database. We recommend daily database backups when you use the Full Recovery model.
SQL Server collation
  • English with collation setting SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS
  • English with collation setting SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CS_AS
  • German with collation setting German_PhoneBook_CI_AS
  • Japanese with collation setting Japanese_CI_AS
  • Simplified Chinese with collation setting Chinese_PRC_CI_AS

We support CI database on an CS SQL Server.

We do not support case-sensitive databases.

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

 

  • Due to intense I/O requirements, a RAID 1+0 drive is strongly recommended for the SolarWinds database, data, and log files with a dedicated drive for the server operating system and tempdb files.
  • Other RAID configurations can negatively affect your SQL Server's performance.
  • Mirrored drives for the OS and RAID 1+0 for database data files are recommended.
  • Solid state drives (SSD) are recommended for all components.

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.

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.

Other software

SolarWinds recommends you install the SQL Server Management Studio component on your Orion database server.

The Orion Installer installs the following required x86 components if they are not found on your Orion database server:

  • SQL Server System Common Language Runtime (CLR) Types. Orion products use secure SQL CLR stored procedures for selected, non-business data operations to improve overall performance.
  • Microsoft SQL Server Native Client
  • Microsoft SQL Server Management Objects

You cannot share the SolarWinds Orion database with Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Exchange, and Research in Motion (RIM) BlackBerry servers.

* 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 Services (AWS deployments)

To deploy NPM 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)

Orion 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

r5d.4xlarge

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

Microsoft Azure

To deploy NPM on Microsoft Azure, consider using the following instance types, based on your deployment size. The table provides NPM license levels as a reference.

Require-
ments

Small

SL100, SL250, SL500

Medium

SL2000

Large

SLX

XL (up to 400,000 elements)

Orion server

DS12_v2

4 CPU

16 GB RAM

150 GB disk

DS12_v2

4 CPU

16 GB RAM

150 GB disk

DS4_v2

8 CPU

32 GB RAM

150 GB disk

DS4_v2

8 CPU

32 GB RAM

150 GB disk

SolarWinds Orion database server in an Azure VM

D12_v2

4 CPU

30.5 GB RAM

System SSD 80 GB (included in D12_v2) + Data Azure Storage Disk Volume 500 GB*

DS4_v2 Standard

8 CPU

28 GB RAM

System SSD 126 GB (included in Azure VM instance) + 1 TB for SQL database (included in Azure SQL Server Computer)

D4_v2

Azure Storage Disk with Provisioned IOPS recommended

8 CPU

61 GB RAM

System SSD 160 GB (included in D4_v2) + 2x Data Azure Storage Disk Volume 500 GB*

E32-8s_v3

Azure Storage Disk with Provisioned IOPS recommended

8 CPU

256 GB RAM

System SSD 512 GB (included in E32-8s_v3) + 2x Data Azure Storage Disk Volume 500 GB*

SolarWinds Orion database using Azure SQL DB

All installed products must run on Orion Platform 2019.2, such as:

  • DPAIM 11.2
  • EOC 2.2
  • ETS 11.0.8
  • IPAM 4.9
  • LA 2.1
  • NCM 8.0
  • NPM 12.5
  • NTA 4.6
  • PM 2.1.7
  • SAM 6.9
  • SCM 1.2
  • SRM 6.9
  • UDT 3.4
  • VMAN 8.5
  • VNQM 4.6
  • WPM 3.0

Time zone setting of the Orion Server must be in the same time zone as Azure SQL DB time zone (UTC).

When deploying Azure SQL and creating a new user in the Configuration wizard, SA account credentials are required in the Configuration wizard.

When using Azure SQL database as your database server, the required tiers also depend on whether you are using memory-optimized tables. Memory-optimized tables, also known as In-Memory OLTP, are a feature available in MS SQL Server 2016 and 2019 that improves the performance of transaction processing, data ingestion, data load, and transient data scenarios.

Azure SQL DB tiers if you use memory-optimized tables

DTU Tier P1

vCore Business Critical Gen4 Tier 1

vCore Business Critical Gen5 Tier 2

DTU Tier P2

vCore Business Critical Gen4 Tier 2

vCore Business Critical Gen5 Tier 2

DTU Tier P4

vCore Business Critical Gen4 Tier 4

vCore Business Critical Gen5 Tier 4

DTU Tier P11

vCore Business Critical Gen4 Tier 16

vCore Business Critical Gen5 Tier 14

Azure SQL DB tiers without memory-optimized tables

DTU Standard Tier S3

DTU Premium Tier P1

vCore General Purpose Tier 2

vCore Business Critical Tier 2

DTU Standard Tier S3

DTU Premium Tier P1

vCore General Purpose Tier 2

vCore Business Critical Tier 2

DTU Standard Tier S4

DTU Premium Tier P2

vCore General Purpose Tier 2

vCore Business Critical Tier 2

DTU Standard Tier S9 (up to 100k elements), S12 (up to 400k elements)

DTU Premium Tier P6 (up to 100k elements), P11 (up to 400k elements)

vCore General Purpose Tier 16 (up to 100k elements), 30 (up to 400k elements)

vCore Business Critical Tier 8 (up to 100k elements), 14 (up to 400k elements).

 

* Azure Storage Disk volumes are not your dedicated hardware. Consider using Azure Reserved Instances of storage disk volumes for SQL servers.

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