[mrtg] Re: Number of SNMP elements per MRTG Box

[tony bourke]

Hi Gene,

It greatly depends on the type of machine you are running.  I would
recommend a SCSI-based (SCSI doesn't soak up CPU cycles the day IDE does
during the hi I/O that MRTG causes at that number of targets) with plenty
of RAM, and at least on 1 Ghz Pentium III processor or better, or a
comperable Sun or other vendor system.  The key though is SCSI.  I'm not
sure what type of performance you can get with Windows 2000, but I've run
a dual proc SCSI box with about 1,000 targets before on Solaris and Linux.

Tony



On Fri, 18 Jan
2002 Gene.Bagwell at VerizonWireless.com wrote:

>
> Ok,
>
> Here is a loaded question.
>
> Approximately how many device can MRTG poll during 5 minutes if all the
> devices are SNMP.
>
> I have a network with over 500 serial interfaces (mixture DS-3, T-1, and
> DS-0).  I am trying to determine I need one or many machines to poll the
> network.

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