We run 2 copies of SA on different boxes (one on SA v5 the other on SA v3, though hopefully that will be upgraded to v5 any day now). One copy monitors the LAN based servers, and the other monitors the WAN attached servers. This allows us to have two separate teams monitoring each server, and also keeps everything separate so as the WAN checks are going to be slower, then it won't impact the LAN checks. As everyone else has said SA is so "reasonably priced" that it makes sense to split up the checks. Also the two boxes monitor each other and restart the SA service as necessary so hopefully we shouldn't have any time when monitoring is completely stopped.
Due to the nature of the support set up here, and my lack of HTML skills (!) we run two separate summary pages, but it works well, as all alerts are also emailed and/or SMS'ed to the necessary people. Cheers, Richard Gibson Technical Services InterContinental Hotels Group -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris S. Mang Sent: Monday, July 11, 2005 5:52 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [SA-list] One monitoring server or more? Hello, Currently, we monitor almost 900 items across a number of servers around the world, utilizing one instance of Servers Alive 4.1. It currently takes about 18 minutes to run through all those checks. I would like to reduce that response time by 50%. Does anyone run multiple Servers Alive instances (on different servers) to improve performance? What are some of the plusses and minuses to running multiple SA servers versus a single SA server (other than cost of additional licensing for multiple servers)? How difficult is it to combine the web page output from multiple SA servers? Thanks for any information you provide! Chris Mang>> JDA Software Group, Inc. ------------------------- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] To unsubscribe from a list, send a mail message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] With the following in the body of the message: unsubscribe SAlive ------------------------- [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude Virus] To unsubscribe from a list, send a mail message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] With the following in the body of the message: unsubscribe SAlive
