Thanks again Leslie, Channing and everyone else who reply directly and
through the mail list. Your real-life experiences are invaluable.
Thanks and regards,
Justin Eagleson
JPMorganChase Global Technology Infrastructure
Systems and Service Management Tools
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Justin Eagleson
Leslie Clark <lclark@us.ibm.com>
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You did not say what platform you are running on. I can only really
address Unix (AIX). As for scalability, I think the capacity limitation is
more on the devices being polled than on the Netview server. How busy are
they, and how much data can they spit out given the timeouts and retries
you specify. A few mib variables every 5 minutes can be a lot what with
today's devices having hundreds of interfaces. Many of the values you are
likely to want to poll are mib expressions like bandwidth utilization,
involving several mib variables, so that's another multiplier.
Netview does a nice job of combining the requests into bundles, and can
limit the size of the request, making multiple trips if necessary. This
makes it relatively efficient.
If you are talking hundreds of devices with hundreds of interfaces each
and want to poll in the 5 minute range, I would not feel positive. In the
15 minute range, I'd say maybe, if the box is big enough for everything
else going on. For thousands of devices and only a couple of mib values
every 15 minutes, that's probably ok too.
I have seldom seen the snmpCollect daemon hogging the cpu unless something
silly was configured.
I will say, however, that I am finding it less usable these days for data
collection on high-speed interfaces. The Counter32 datatypes it supports
cannot handle the rollovers. In fact, at some sites the Counter64
datatypes would not help. I see the rmon mib now has tables for reporting
counter rollovers, so you can monitor those instead of the actual counts.
Amazing.
So, let's hear it, everyone. What are you collecting, on how many
interfaces, how often, on what hardware, and what's the bottleneck?
Cordially,
Leslie A. Clark
IBM Global Services - Systems Mgmt & Networking
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05/19/2005 10:06 AM
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Does anyone care to share their experiences (good or bad) using Netview to
poll SNMP nodes for MIB data collection? Specifically, Netview 7.1.4, and
storing the MIB data in a flat file. How scalable was it? How many nodes
at what interval? On what hardware was Netview running?
Any information is appreciated.
Regards,
Justin Eagleson
JPMorganChase Global Technology Infrastructure
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