NPM 12.
0 system requirements
Updated August 22, 2016
Supports: NPM 12.0
Important: These system requirements define the minimum requirements for all products on
Orion Platform 2016.1. Products may have different requirements, such as OS or memory, and
may differ per license level.
For additional information on requirements and configurations, see the Orion Common
Components Guide. You should also review your product administration guides and release
notes for the exact product requirements beyond these minimums.
We also recommend reviewing the NPM 12.0 Release Notes.
Hardware requirements
The following table lists minimum hardware requirements and recommendations for your Orion
system.
Hardware requirements are listed by SolarWinds NPM license level.
Hardware SL100, SL250, SL500 SL2000 SLX
2.0 GHz 2.4 GHz 3.0 GHz
CPU speed For production environments, quad core is recommended.
Do not enable Physical Address Extension (PAE).
10 GB minimum 15 GB minimum 30 GB minimum
20 GB recommended 40 GB recommended 40 GB recommended
Two 146 GB 15K (RAID 1/Mirrored Settings) hard drives are recommended with
a dedicated drive for the server operating system, Orion product installation, and
Hard drive tempdb files.
space
During upgrades the installer needs 1 GB of free space.
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.
4 GB minimum 8 GB minimum 16 GB minimum
Memory
8 GB recommended 16 GB recommended 32 GB recommended
Software requirements
The following table lists minimum software requirements and recommendations for a
SolarWinds NPM installation.
These minimum requirements are for the Orion Platform. Products that run on the Orion
Platform may have difference requirements, such as different OS or memory requirements.
Consult your product-specific documentation for those exact requirements.
• Beginning with Orion Platform 2016.1, you can only install on Windows Server 2008 R2
SP1, 2012, and 2012 R2.
• SolarWinds does not support installing SolarWinds products on domain controllers.
• SolarWinds neither recommends nor supports the installation of any Orion product on the
same server or using the same database server as a Research in Motion (RIM) Blackberry
server.
Software Requirements
Production Evaluation Only
• Windows 7 SP1
• Windows 8 (except for
• Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1
Standard Edition)
• Windows Server 2012 and
• Windows 8.1 (except for
2012 R2
Operating Standard Edition)
system • Windows 10
Installing SolarWinds Orion on Windows Server 2012 R2 Essentials is not
supported.
• English (UK or US)
Operating • German
system • Japanese
languages • Simplified Chinese
IPv4
IPv6 implemented as a dual stack. For more information, see RFC 4213 - Basic
IP address Transition Mechanisms for IPv6 Hosts and Routers.
version
CIDR notation is not supported for IPv6 addresses.
Software Requirements
Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS), version 7.5 or later, in 32-bit
mode
• DNS specifications require that host names be composed of
alphanumeric characters (A-Z, 0-9), the minus sign (-), and periods (.).
Underscore characters (_) are not allowed. For more information, see
Web server
RFC 952 - DOD Internet Host Table Specification.
• IIS is installed by the SolarWinds installer. You can install this software
manually to reduce your installation time or network bandwidth.
• SolarWinds products are not compatible with IIS version 6.0 installations
that use web gardens.
.NET 4.5
.NET
Framework
Compatible with 4.6.1
• Microsoft Internet Explorer version 11 or later with Active scripting
• Microsoft Edge
Web console • Firefox 44.0 or later (Toolset Integration is not supported on Firefox)
browser • Chrome 48.0 or later
• Safari for iPhone
Other MSMQ
The following services must be running after installation is complete:
Services • SolarWinds Syslog Service
• SNMP Trap Service
SolarWinds recommends that administrators have local administrator privileges
User
to ensure full functionality of local SolarWinds tools. Accounts limited to the
privileges
Orion Web Console do not require administrator privileges.
Orion SQL database requirements
Your product and your SolarWinds Orion database should use separate servers.
Multiple Orion server installations using the same database are not supported.
The following table lists software and hardware requirements for your SolarWinds Orion
database server using SolarWinds NPM license levels as a reference.
Requirements SL100, SL250, SL500 SL2000 SLX
SolarWinds supports Express, Standard, or Enterprise versions of the following:
• SQL Server 2008, 2008 SP1, 2008 SP2, 2008 SP3, or 2008 SP4
• SQL Server 2008 R2, 2008 R2 SP1, 2008 R2 SP2, or 2008 R2 SP3
• SQL Server 2012, 2012 SP1, 2012 SP2, or 2012 SP3 (also with
AlwaysOn Availability Groups)
• SQL Server 2014 (also with AlwaysOn Availability Groups) or 2014
SP1
• SQL Server 2016
• SolarWinds strongly recommends using the 64-bit version of
SQL Server.
SQL Server
• The FullWithSQL installer package automatically installs SQL Server
2014 Express. This is recommended for evaluations.
• Set the recovery model of the database to Simple. SolarWinds does not
support other methods.
• SQL Server Compact Edition 3.5 SP2 is only supported for evaluations.
• Due to latency effects, SolarWinds does not recommend installing your
SQL Server and your Orion server or additional polling engine in
different locations across a WAN. For more information, see Install
SolarWinds software and SolarWinds database (SQL Server) across a
WAN.
• 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
SQL Server
• Japanese with collation setting Japanese_CI_AS
collation
• Simplified Chinese with collation setting Chinese_PRC_CI_AS
We do not support case-sensitive databases.
Quad core processor Dual quad core
CPU speed Dual quad core processor or better
or better processor or better
100 GB minimum
400 GB recommended
SolarWinds recommends the
following configuration:
50 GB minimum
Hard drive 20 GB minimum
100 GB • A hardware RAID
space 40 GB recommended
recommended 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
Requirements SL100, SL250, SL500 SL2000 SLX
• 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
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.
Per Windows standards, 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.
Requirements SL100, SL250, SL500 SL2000 SLX
SL100
4 GB minimum
8 GB recommended
16 GB minimum
64 GB minimum
Memory 64 GB
SL250 & SL500 128 GB recommended
recommended
8 GB minimum
16 GB recommended
Authentication Either mixed-mode or SQL authentication
If you are managing your SolarWinds Orion database, SolarWinds recommends
you install the SQL Server Management Studio component.
The Installation Wizard installs the following required x86 components if they
are not found on your Orion database server:
Other software
• 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
Server port requirements
For RabbitMQ: Ports 4369, 25672, and 5672 are opened by default. These ports can be blocked
by the firewall.
• 25 (TCP) SMTP port for non-encrypted messages
• 161 (UDP) for statistics collection
• 162 (UDP) for Trap Server listening for incoming messages
• 443 (TCP) default port for https binding and bi-directional ESX/ESXi server polling and
for Cisco UCS monitoring
• 465 (TCP) for SSL-enabled email alert actions
• 587 ( TCP) for TLS-enabled email alert actions
• 1801 (TCP) for MSMQ WCF binding
• 5671 (TCP) for RabbitMQ messaging between the primary and additional polling engines
• 17777 (TCP) open for Orion module traffic
• 17778 (HTTPS and TCP) open to access the SolarWinds Information Service API and
agent communication
• 17779 (HTTP and HTTPS) for the SolarWinds Toolset Integration
• 17791 (TCP) open for agent communication on any running Windows Server 2008 R2
SP1
