Network Management

Identify Additional Web Servers (AWS) in SolarWinds Platform environment via SQL

This article provides information how to run a SQL query to quickly identify which servers are additional web servers (AWS) in a SolarWinds Platform environment.

First published date

7/14/2025 5:01 PM

Last published date

7/14/2025 5:01 PM

Overview

In some environments, SolarWinds Platform may have a large number of servers in the environment, making it difficult to determine which ones are Additional Pollers, Additional Web Servers, or Main Pollers.

Product section

Orion Platform

Resolution

Note the following for each query below:

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  1. Connect to the SolarWinds Platform Main Polling Engine.
  2. Open Database Manager from the SolarWinds Platform folder of the start menu.
  3. Select Add Orion Server and expand the SQL server and database in bold.
  4. Right-click the database and select New Query.
  5. Paste one of the below queries in the window on the right and select Execute query to display the servers for each type:

Additional Web Servers:

Select * from Orionservers 
where servertype= 'AdditionalWebsite'

Additional Poller Engine:

Select * from OrionServers 
where servertype= 'AdditionalPoller'

Main Poller:

Select * from OrionServers 
where servertype= 'MainPoller'