How many people connect to Solarwinds in your company?

So we might be getting to the bottom of my odd issues with Solarwinds and just wanted to see out in THWACK land what others have done.

We have our IT department and all of the users in the department have logins into Solarwinds. Are they all in Solarwinds at once? Not really maybe 4 of us at a time at most doing things in Solarwinds. I am the primary Solarwinds contact so any updates/nodes/alerting/etc I do. The infrastructure team usually handles all the Cisco ACI nodes.

Additionally I have created dashboards and alerts for different teams in our company for their applications to assist in monitoring and troubleshooting.

Support sent this article over that stated that only 10-20 people should be accessing the webserver at one time or it may cause issues - Server sizing recommendations

My questions -

1. Anyone else in THWACK land have this kind of setup with users and access?

2. Has anyone setup a separate webserver for Solarwinds?

3. Right now the App server has Orion Platform 2018.2 HF5, NPM 12.3, Cloud monitoring 2.0, SAM 6.6.1, DPAIM 11.1.0, VNQM 4.5.0, VMAN 8.2.1 HF 1, NetPath 1.1.3, IPAM 4.7.0, NCM 7.8, NTA 4.4.0 - So would it make sense to setup a separate 'access' server for the website? So the app server can run just apps? The App server is configured as an Enterprise app server.

4. How do you setup a separate webserver for access?

5. And if you setup an additional webserver can it be load balanced?

Thanks!

Dave

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dfairles

I have 2 additional web servers that are load balanced with an F5, and the main poller is HA.

jhandberg

We are in process of setting up an F5 with additional web servers. We had one AWE, and SolarWinds support looked at the active connections and recommended we needed 3 more AWEs. All 4 will be placed behind the F5 once that configuration is complete. We have installed and tested the new web servers already, we are just waiting for the F5 configuration and testing.

I think I would like to see HA for the main engine. I don't think we will ever have HA for APEs.

martian_monster

Is this the setup procedure? Install an Additional Polling Engine, Additional Web Server, or HA server - SolarWinds Worldwide, LLC. Help and Support

bourlis

Dave, We have 8 APE's and 3 AWS, and the primary. Yes, all the AWS's are behind a F5 load balancer that does round robin connections. We intentionally kept the primary poller out of the pool. Only the Solarwinds admins login into the primary poller's web console.

As I mentioned we have 8 APE's. We put them behind the F5 load balancer too. That way we only had to issue one IP for all SYSLOG, TRAP and NetFlow destinations for any device on the network.

In doing this we saw a notable increase in SW performance.

jhandberg

For the additional web server, that is what we are following.

rinat.kirimov

bourlis, I'd be insterested to see how you were able to set up APEs behind F5. Is it only for syslog/netflow or were you able to set that up for monitoring as well?

brscott

I regularly have between 20 and 35 people connecting to a single additional web server, and I do sometimes notice things getting slow. I really don't want to put any of that load back on the primary poller, so I will probably buy another APE next year.

sreenathmp

Hi Dave,

For one of our clients we are using additional web servers. They have around 25+ people using Solarwinds same time. So we setup 2 additional web servers which are load balanced using F5.