

Now, three factors affect Orion server scalability and those are the numbers of monitored elements like a node or an interface, polling frequency so there is a big difference if you’re polling every few minutes versus every few hours, and finally, the number of simultaneous administrative users accessing the monitoring system. You can deploy scalability engine servers to scale your polling.

In a centralized deployment, all you need is an Orion server and an Orion Core database server to get started. Centralized deployment means your pollers are co-located with the Orion server. It can be deployed in a centralized or distributed fashion. The Orion Platform enables real-time performance monitoring and management of physical and virtual infrastructure in a single pane of glass in the form of services such as alerting, reporting, dashboards, and charts. NOW, let’s look at the Orion platform architecture and use cases.

SolarWinds Orion Architecture and Deployment Models
