[hobbit] Estimating hardware needs for Hobbit server

[Henrik Stoerner]

On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 04:50:13PM -0600, Haertig, David F (Dave) wrote:
> I'm currently running my Hobbit server/Apache on Linux-based Dell
> Dimension desktop [...]
> I found some older Sun hardware in the lab that I'm considering using as
> a replacement, but I don't know how it's specs would compare.  I'm not
> familiar with Sun/Sparc hardware all that much.  Can anyone comment on
> if what I've scrounged up might be adequate?  At most, I'd expect to
> eventually monitor several dozen servers, but probably no more than 100.
>  
> Ultra 5
> Ultra 10 (350 MGz, 512 MB RAM)
> E420R (2  - 450 MHz CPUs, 2 GB RAM)

Ultra 5 and 10 are desktop systems. The E420 is a server-class system,
but all of them are fairly old - I have all of these at work, and they
were probably bought some 6-8 years ago.

But Hobbit doesn't require much hardware. My production Hobbit server 
is a Sun E220, which is a bit smaller than your E420. And I'm running
a Hobbit installation with more than 3000 hosts monitored.

So all of these boxes have enough power to run your Hobbit setup.
If you're free to choose, then I'd pick the E420 - it has some
server-side goodies like RAID disks with hotswap that the other
two don't have. And there's room for running a couple of heavy 
Hobbit add-on scripts.


Regards,
Henrik