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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