-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Erik and Eric,
thank you both for the info. I'll probably be setting up a test instance sometime in the near future so we can kick the tires, as it were. Erik A. Dahl wrote: > Tom, > > Just a couple thoughts to add here... > > On Jan 10, 2007, at 10:15 AM, Eric Newton wrote: > >>> number of sites. There are a couple of things I can't seem to find a >>> lot of information on in the FAQ or Admin Guide, though, specifically: > > We continue to improve the docs each release. :) > >>> >>> 1) How well does Zenoss scale across large (10K+ nodes) environments >>> that are spread across multiple sites? Do you have any performance >>> numbers for things like parallel service or host checks? Each node >>> would have multiple checks running against them for different services >>> and/or processes. > > When you say nodes do you mean a device (ie a piece of hardware running > an OS with interfaces filesystems, etc) or individual monitors (like a > single filesystem check)? We scale the system by thinking of "devices" > which may have many monitors each. > Yes, node == device. We have a distributed computing cluster and that nomenclature seems to slip out when I least expect it. > Certainly the system is designed to scale to large numbers and to that > end we can distribute our collectors across multiple machines. The > performance collecting daemons store their data locally (but we still > allow access to the data through one central interface). > > The event processing daemons (syslog, snmptrap, win eventlog) can also > be distributed but they send events to a centralized relational > database. This setup can process large numbers of events. > > Finally the core configuration database is also central but modeler > daemons can be distributed. >> >>> 2) Can Zenoss aggregate views from several monitoring servers into an >>> overall picture (similar to Nagios' distributed monitoring >>> configuration)? For example, can a site-based monitoring server be >>> configured to push it's results up to a "master" server somewhere? >>> > > The result of the things I describe above is a system that can scale to > large numbers but has one integrated console to view, configure and > manage your information. I think this is a little different than a > distributed nagios setup (although I'm not a nagios expert! :) > > -EAD I look forward to trying it. Thanks again for the great information. - -=Tom Nail -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFpmbw1zsLRjt/NQ0RAkK4AJ9CgZ8DbYY6dTllGmqEmUM75b2ZfQCfVR0i Q8LJ8ZW6HMtzetPRRN5FYFo= =35sh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ zenoss-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zenoss.org/mailman/listinfo/zenoss-users
