First i must admit I'm not a Linux-Professional. First I install fresh ZenossCore with Stack-Installer on a fresh installed Ubuntu 8.04-Server in a VMWare GSX. After a long Time the system works well with a few Devices. Then I added ~40 Firewalls (with Performance-Monitoring) and ~40 Cisco Routers (only Ping). After this the Zenoss (last 2.2.4 Version) hangs randomly and MxSQL crashes. I spend some Time (inclusive Zenoss-Forum) to fix the Problem but have no luck.
I decided to try the VMWare Appliance on a GSX-Server. After a few ajustments (for example I added a new HDD with more Space and mount it in /home/zenoss and copy all files and directories under to it) anything works fine. When we implement VMWare I3 I convert and place the Appliance on our ESX-Server. I will be able to let the Appliance growing. Now I have 47 Firewalls with Performace, 45 Cisco-Routers with only Ping and 18 Win2003 Servers. I Upgrade the Appliance to 2.3.3 now. It works fine for me for now 5 Month without an error. I plan to add another 35 Win2003-Server with performance-Monitoring. Appliance or Full Version? I think it depends on how much Performance- and Service-Monitoring you want to add, not only on the number of Devices. Important is to Plan what you want to monitor. Only monitor things you realy need for your work. And it depends on how much resources from host you give the Appliance. For Example I give 2 CPUs and 2GB RAM to it and it works with CPU-Performance max. 10%, Mem-Performance max. 15% I must speak against jmp242. His statement is too sweeping. The Appliance is not for Demo. For those who are not Linux-Experts it is easy to use, easy to setup and with rpath easy to update/upgrade. In my case I haven't the time to setup Linux and fix all the packet-dependencies-and configure-problems like "when you want this, install that and that and ..., make sure you have configure this and that ..." to make it work. In my opinion one thing against the Appliance is, that I don't know the limits of the Appliance. So I Think this Question maybe answer someone from the Zenoss-Team. Dietmar -------------------- m2f -------------------- Read this topic online here: http://forums.zenoss.com/viewtopic.php?p=31719#31719 -------------------- m2f -------------------- _______________________________________________ zenoss-users mailing list [email protected] http://lists.zenoss.org/mailman/listinfo/zenoss-users
