[159148] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: IP Address Management IPAM software for small ISP
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jo Rhett)
Tue Dec 25 01:38:30 2012
From: Jo Rhett <jrhett@netconsonance.com>
In-Reply-To: <85fb3201-07f2-4a5b-a682-99507a2ba615@email.android.com>
Date: Mon, 24 Dec 2012 22:38:08 -0800
To: Charles N Wyble <charles-lists@knownelement.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Dec 20, 2012, at 9:26 PM, Charles N Wyble wrote:
> Zenoss works very well
Um... you lost me after the first 4 words. Zenoss might work acceptably =
for very, very small organizations with very small amounts of data. =
Zenoss is incapable of scaling to even moderate-sized data sets with =
tens of thousands of data sources, nevermind medium sized data sets with =
millions of data sources. I work at a very small shop with three total =
engineers and Zenoss was unable to scale beyond 1/4 of our data sources =
with dozens of cores and hundreds of gigabytes of RAM on numerous =
systems. It doesn't actually use any of these, the internal deadlocks =
in the architecture make it impossible for it to scale.
That Zenoss might make a better IP management tool than what it is =
purported and sold to do... amuses.
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Jo Rhett
Net Consonance : net philanthropy to improve open source and internet =
projects.
