Jim Gogan wrote:
So, my questions to those of you that do wax enthusiastically to this
day about AirWave:
1) How many WAPs are you currently managing with a single Airwave
appliance?
Today around 400 with plans to scale to 2000 by June 2006.
2) What is the (average) polling interval used?
5 minutes
3) Do you have multiple Airwave servers, and if so, how many WAPs
managed on each one? How do you plan to scale--additional separate
servers, or a beefier single server?
We have a single quad processor server with 2 licenses. Airwave has
single and dual processor licenses so that is what was needed for our setup.
4) What are your server specs? (Vendor, OS, number of CPUs and their
speed, amount of RAM, number of active NICs, etc.)
Dell PowerEdge 6650.
quad processor -Intel Xeon 3.0GHz/4MB cache.
8GB memory,
5-73 GB 15k rpm scsi drives in a raid array.
5) How is performance on your server? Do you notice performance
degradation over time? About how much memory is used under average
load? How busy are the CPUs under average load? How much network
traffic is generated from polling?
Performace is excellent. Never had memory or cpu issues degrading over
time. Never had to reboot the server. We have plenty of bandwidth and so
have never had a need to measure the polling traffic.
AirWave technical support has been great with a fast response time and
good technical answers. We are running on RHE 4. It is configured like
all of our RHE systems which are centrally monitored and maintained with
some custom tools we have. It was very easy working with AirWave about
the issue of some of our rpm packages which differed from there base
configuration. I would suggest calling them if you have any performance
problems, especially if it causes dailiy reboots.
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Rusty Smith
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
University of Wisconsin Madison
Division of Information Technology
Network Services
1210 W. Dayton St. Rm B116
Madison WI 53706 (608) 263-6307
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