Network Management

SolarWinds Platform 2016.2 feature: Agent for Linux

Learn more about the SolarWinds Platform Agent for Linux, providing extending agent monitoring to Linux systems. Supported distributions include RHEL 5/6/7 (x64, x86), CentOS 5/6/7 (x64, x86), SUSE Linux 10/11/12 (x64, x86), Ubunto-14 (x64), and Amazon Linux AMI (x64).

First published date

10/30/2018 2:26 PM

Last published date

5/12/2026 4:23 PM

Overview

This release of SolarWinds Platform agents extends our monitoring capabilities to Linux. The SolarWinds Platform agent for Linux supports the following distributions:

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 x64, x86
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 x64, x86
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 x64
  • CentOS-5 x64, x86
  • CentOS-6 x64, x86
  • CentOS-7 x64
  • SUSE Linux 10 x64, x86
  • SUSE Linux 11 x64, x86
  • SUSE Linux 12 x64
  • Ubuntu-14 x64
  • Amazon Linux AMI x64

 

Watch this video to learn more about installing agents.

Product section

Orion Platform

Resolution

Benefits of the SolarWinds Platform agent for Linux 

  • Monitor Linux applications wherever they are running (on premises and cloud).
  • Monitor Linux systems in secure and geographically distributed environments.
  • Monitor Linux systems reliably over WAN, satellite, and VPN connections.
  • Use Server & Application Monitor to clearly classify Linux operating systems by distribution in the node tree.
  • Use the Real Time Process Explorer to identify and monitor processes easily and terminate them remotely.
  • Deploy the SolarWinds Orion agent for Linux multiple ways: adding a node, mass deployment when managing agents, command line, and from a repo.

Application monitoring 

The SolarWinds Platform agent for Linux provides a wide variety of templates that you can use to monitor Linux applications. Each template includes one or more of the following component monitors that extract information from Linux.

  • Process monitor (process disk I/O statistics and virtual memory)
  • TCP port monitor
  • Linux / Unix script monitor
  • Nagios script monitor
  • SNMP monitor
  • JMX monitor
  • ODBC user experience monitor
  • Oracle user experience monitor

Node monitoring 

The SolarWinds Platform agent for Linux provides information for the following and many more node monitoring metrics:

Top CPUs by Percent Load

  • Average CPU Load & Memory Utilization
  • Interface details
  • Disk Volumes

The Agent address many of the shortcomings associated with monitoring Linux host via SNMP,

It calculates volume usage statistics including system reserve usage using the df (disk filesystem) command.

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