MattS wrote: > I have been looking into some monitoring solutions, I like the look of > Zenoss, but am wondering if it will work for my needs. Everything I read > talks about using Zenoss for 10-1000 devices. > > I need to monitor approximately 6000 devices. I really only need 'ping' type > monitoring on about 5000 of them that are running Windows XP. The other 1000 > are running 2003 Server R2 on Dell servers and I could see a need to monitor > more in depth information. > > These devices are spread across approximately 300 locations which are > connected via a private WAN. The connections are about 400 Kbs to the > locations. > > Would a single server be able to handle this kind of load? Is SNMP the only > way to populate devices aside from doing it in a manual fashion? If I have > another product with a database of all known devices, could I use that data > to populate the list of manageable items? > > Any info would be appreciated. > > Matt
I can's speak for the power of the server and what-not, however, as long as you do not want to monitor Windows Server 2008 or Windows Vista there is a WMI ZenPack for Zenoss that will allow you to use WMI to monitor Windows systems rather than using SNMP. -------------------- m2f -------------------- Read this topic online here: http://community.zenoss.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=19528#19528 -------------------- m2f -------------------- _______________________________________________ zenoss-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zenoss.org/mailman/listinfo/zenoss-users
