Re: My Dream PC
OK here is the environment,
4 collector server. (the one u see above is 1 of 4), processing of all the SNMP Traps & Agent messages is done locally on each of them, thats why CPU usage is around 50% or above. In case of message storm it goes upto 100%. Current 4 CPU machines are not able to handle message stroms & usually crash (CPU Bottle neck situation). Of course MsSQL is running on the boxes too. Each collector has around 3000 Boxes each to monitor since EMEA (Europe Middle East Africa) & AMIS (Americas) are back up of each other.
These 4 collectors proccess everything to MOM (Manager of Managers) (two HP-UX Clustered boxes). MOMs are 4 CPU, 16 GB HP-UX boxes. Our 4 Unix Collectors however are 8 CPU 16 GB Ram boxes and they do get bottle neck situation.
The reason we have to use High spec machines is because high number of clients, plus if u know how HP OVOW MMC works on Windows servers u would know why do we need high spec machine, keeping in mind that server has around roughly 3000 nodes in it.
I usually take care of Unix side of stuff, but of course being incharge I have to take care of windows stuff too at times.