Re: [hobbit] Hobbit Minimum HW requirement

[vernon.everett (at) westernpower.com.au]

Hi

I can't tell you what minimum spec is, but I know my first production 
installation of Hobbit was on a $0.00 budget.
I couldn't get any management buy-in for a monitoring system. (This 
changed once they saw Hobbit in action).

I ran Hobbit on a notebook I built from scavenged components in our 
"scrap" pile.
It was a P3 800, with 256Mb of RAM. I installed Mandrake (Mandriva) Linux 
on it.
OK, we never had that many servers we were monitoring, but you could use 
that as a minimum spec. It did run, and I don't think CPU utilisation ever 
went much over 10%.

Anybody out there used something of lower spec?

Regards
      Vernon


Charles Goyard <charles.goyard (at) orange-ftgroup.com> wrote on 17/09/2007 
03:21:58 PM:

> Ryan Jay B. Lapuz wrote :
> > 
> > I'm currently documenting hobbit installation and configuration base 
on our 
> > company requirements. However, I'm stuck on the information about the 
> > minimum hardware requirement of the Hobbit server. I can't seem to 
find it 
> > into the internet. Anyone who has this info?
> 
> It depends on the number of clients, but a 5 years old box will make you
> happy up to, say, 1000 clients. (Henrik has a 3000+ boxes setup hosted
> on a (very) old Sun server).
> 
> In fact, the real hotspot is the hard drive, if you encounter lots of
> status changes and graph much data. Get fast hard drives.
> 
> I have a nice 2x Xeon 3.2GHz with SCSI drives, it show idle 90% of the
> time, and 6% waiting for IO.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> -- 
> Charles Goyard - charles.goyard (at) orange-ftgroup.com - (+33) 1 45 38 01 31
> Orange Business Services - online multimedia  // ingénierie
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