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List:       opennms-install
Subject:    Re: [opennms-install] OpenNMS server requirements
From:       "Mahoney, John T." <jmahoney () hms ! harvard ! edu>
Date:       2010-06-17 18:14:42
Message-ID: 7DEE2D3E-D5C0-43D2-A26F-B5B1D75C9301 () hms ! harvard ! edu
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> > Back maybe 5 years ago, we had a simple, 2U, RedHat linux server with two hard \
> > drives (mirrored) running OpenNMS, PostgreSQL, Tomcat, etc just fine. We are \
> > finally ready to stop using Sitescope and go back to OpenNMS but now I am getting \
> > concerned about the hardware requirements. 
> > Am I dreaming to think I can ping monitor and do SNMP polling on about 200 \
> > different devices/IPs from a single server with two hard drives? On most of these \
> > devices, we will probably just send SNMP Traps to OpenNMS and no SNMP polling. \
> > (If there is a lot of log data, I can probably store it on our file server/NAS.
> 
> You should be able to do the same work on the same box.  I don't think 
> the software has gotten any less efficient - but more SNMP oids have 
> been added to the default discovery/collection configuration so you 
> might have to disable some graphs if you really don't want them. 
> Personally, I like having per switchport traffic stats along with the 
> host interfaces even though it takes some hardware resources to write 
> all that data.
> 
> -- 
> Les Mikesell

OK! This makes life a bit easier for me. For now, we will just be doing monitoring \
with little or no data collection. My group is not managing the interfaces on (most \
of) our switches so this is not a major concern.

Thanks
--
John

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