[Xymon] Scaling

[White, Bruce]

Over 1000 devices monitored here and only real issue is rrd keeping up.  I have been told an ssd for the rrd files will solve this issue.


 
Bruce White
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-----Original Message-----
From: xymon-bounces at xymon.com [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] On Behalf Of Olivier AUDRY
Sent: Friday, April 05, 2013 3:34 PM
To: Larry Barber
Cc: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: Re: [Xymon] Scaling

hello

15 000 devices here. For me the key is ssd :)

I plan to monitore 60 000 devices with xymon. Only network devices.

We'll see the result.

oau

Le vendredi 05 avril 2013 à 13:54 -0500, Larry Barber a écrit :
> Well, I'm monitoring ~2000 hosts on a fairly modest box (8 3Ghz cores,
> 8 GB of memory). I'm also running quite a few cpu intensive scripts on 
> the same box that could be easily moved to another host, if needed. I 
> do the network testing on separate hosts in each of our major security 
> zones, for reliability of the tests more than to unload the main Xymon 
> server. The main server is not operating anywhere near its capacity, 
> it's using less than 10% (physical) of it's memory and the load 
> average tends to stay around 1. I suspect that the box could handle
> 5000 hosts without too much trouble, maybe more. 
> 
> 
> If you do have scaling problems there are some things you can do, 
> though. Move things like the network tests to separate hosts. You can 
> also move the alerting to a different host using xymonproxy. I've 
> found that the most likely limit you're likely to hit with Xymon is 
> disk i/o, this can be helped by moving the data directory to SAN.
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> Larry Barber
> 
> 
> On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 12:57 PM, Bruce Ferrell <bferrell at baywinds.org>
> wrote:
>         Hi all,
>         
>         I've been doing systems monitoring for a very long time now...
>         I was early on with BB, used HP openview back in day day, blah
>         blah.
>         
>         Anyway, recently I've been told that in very large
>         installations (multi thousands of devices) things like zabbix
>         are the only thing(s) that will do.
>         
>         What are the groups thoughts on this?  What ARE the scaling
>         limits of xymon and can they be overcome somehow?
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