Network Management

Best practices for performance, optimization, and stability of Main Poller, Additional Poller, Additional Web server, and SQL server

The best practices for performance in a SolarWinds Platform deployment

First published date

10/12/2018 8:16 PM

Last published date

6/3/2025 11:04 PM

Overview

This article is intended to aggregate all relevant articles about performing preventive maintenance and configuring the primary polling engine, additional polling engine, additional web server, and SQL server for stability, performance, and optimization.

Product section

Network Performance Monitor

Resolution

The following articles can be used on each primary polling engine, additional polling engine, additional web server, and NTA Flow Storage database:

The Turn off automatic root certificates update article can be used on any server hosting web services such as the primary polling engine or additional web server.

The following articles can be used on SQL servers:

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