The system I'm working on is polling around 27,000 targets consistently using a master config that includes several hundred smaller ones. It's on a Dual 1.6ghz Xeon, 4GB ram, dual 10krpm hard drives in raid1, running on RHEL4.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 9, 2008 at 2:28 PM, William Owen <<a href="mailto:William.Owen@profilesmail.com">William.Owen@profilesmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<p><span style="font-size: 11pt; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);">I poll 1600 targets from a Dual core Xeon 2.4Ghz box with 2GB of
RAM and RAID 10 SAS drives running Windows Server 2003 R2 SP2 Std. I have five
master configs that fire in succession every minute (each configs contains ~320
targets). I echo Steve Shipway's comment that disk IO is the first bottleneck
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<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">I
was requested to install MRTG for monitoring purpose. I am a newbie to
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<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">Can
you advice what are the System Requirements for installing MRTG on OS Windows?</span><span lang="EN-GB"></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;" lang="EN-GB">Appreciate
your help on this. Thank you very much!</span><span lang="EN-GB"></span></p>
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