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Re: NT vs UNIX for NetView 5.1.1???

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Subject: Re: NT vs UNIX for NetView 5.1.1???
From: "Boyles, Gary P" <gary.p.boyles@INTEL.COM>
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 10:01:27 -0700
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We've been running NetView on NT for quite awhile.  The "1000 nodes"
is really a bogus number.  I'm surprised that Tivoli's NT NV Engineering
group isn't more vocal about this!

Anyway... here is my "real life experiences".  Note:  They aren't
"bench marks" because we really haven't done any.  These are just my
observations.

Also please note:  The below figures are using the out-of-the-box config,
with 15 minute polling intervals, and little ruleset processing going on:

Pentium Pro 200MHZ, 2GB disk, 128 MB memory.  600-1000 nodes without any
problems, unless event-rate (traps) started coming in at 4-5 per second.
This is my current development system.  I can actually do work... as long
as the trap-rate stays low.

2-Processor PII 333, 9 GB disk, 256 MB memory.  10,000 nodes in the
database.  Things were starting to get quite sluggish, but the GUI
response was still acceptable.  Not much (outside) trap-processing
going on though.  And as I said... nothing other than the default rule
installed.

My suggestion:  Get a PIII 500-500 MHZ workstation. Make sure you
have 256 minimum of memory, and 10 GB of disk-drive, and a decent
graphics processor.  You'll also want a 21" monitor.

Put NetView on it, and give it a try.  Let's face it... without the monitor
you're only talking about $1500-2200 investment.  If you don't like it,
you haven't lost that much  (and it'd make a nice desktop for someone).

As far as licensing  (as far as I know)... Tivoli doesn't care whether
you're running an NT or AIX platform.

That'd be my approch.

Regards,

Gary Boyles             gary.p.boyles@intel.com



-----Original Message-----
From: Don Seitz [mailto:don_seitz@INS.COM]
Sent: Thursday, July 15, 1999 8:53 AM
To: NV-L@UCSBVM.UCSB.EDU
Subject: NT vs UNIX for NetView 5.1.1???


I know you have probably done this a million times, but I need any WHITE
Papers from TIVOLI or other recommendations you can make on what are the
limitations of the NT vs UNIX Netview 5.1.1.

I have been told that the NT scales to about 1000 devices and the UNIX
scales to 20,000.

I know its not a device but object scaling I need to look at.  We think we
are in the 4000 to 7000 object range in our network.  Its a world wide,
Frame relay based WAN.

Any response is appreciated

Don A. Seitz
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