This article describes how to add the Patch Manager Web Console as a new module on an existing SolarWinds Orion Web Console running on an Orion server.
All Orion Core products
You cannot use the SolarWinds-Orion-PM-v2.<version>-WebOnly.exe
installer on an existing Orion Web Console server. Use the web-only installer to install the Orion Platform components. When completed, install the Patch Manager Web Console on a separate web server.
The installation may require several minutes to complete. During the installation, the GUI may disappear.
Patch Manager and the Orion Platform use separate levels of security for SQL authentication. To avoid complicated SQL configurations, SolarWinds recommends installing the Patch Manager Web Console with its own instance of SQL Server Express.
After you launch the Patch Manager Web Console for the first time, complete the following procedure to configure the console.