[hobbit] Estimating hardware needs for Hobbit server

[White, Bruce]

If you put hobbit on that E420R, you'll have more then enough to monitor
your environment.  I have my hobbit server on an HP- RP5400 2x540 MHz - 6 GB
ram.  I'm monitoring 311 "hosts" (90 printers, 12 HPUX/Linux machines and
the windows servers).  The hobbit server has been averaging 54% idle and a
.7 load over the last 4 months.  Most of the monitoring on the windows
servers is not via the hobbit client but via SNMP walking the HP Insight
manager MIB on the windows server.  So the hobbit server is doing most of
that work.

 

   .....Bruce

 

-----Original Message-----
From: Haertig, David F (Dave) [mailto:haertig at avaya.com] 
Sent: Monday, July 02, 2007 5:50 PM
To: hobbit at hswn.dk
Subject: [hobbit] Estimating hardware needs for Hobbit server

 

Hi -

 

I'm currently running my Hobbit server/Apache on Linux-based Dell Dimension
desktop with the following:

 

# grep MemTotal /proc/meminfo
MemTotal:      2075380 kB
# grep name /proc/cpuinfo
model name      : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.40GHz
#

It's not even breathing hard.  It's just sitting there idle for the most
part.  (CPU load 0.02, physical mem used 35%, real mem 12%, nothing ever
swapped)

 

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)

 

Thanks!



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