[52719] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NMS/ OSS commercial software ?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Niels Bakker)
Wed Oct 9 06:58:20 2002
Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2002 12:57:45 +0200
From: Niels Bakker <niels=nanog@bakker.net>
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* neil@DOMINO.ORG (Neil J. McRae) [Wed 09 Oct 2002, 12:50 CEST]:
>
> Niels,
>
>> SMARTS scalability? Thousands and thousands of ports monitored... from
>> what I recall from certain documentation, 2,000 ports is `good', 5,000
>> is `doable' and 25,000 is `too many' (for a single installation).
>
> Also its work noting you can have multiple domains and use cross domain
> correlation [which actually works] if you need to scale the tool. So
> scaling beyond 25000 shouldn't be an issue.
Yes, thanks for noticing - we're doing that too, not that we have 25,000
ports here yet ;), but more for redundancy reasons.
Regards,
-- Niels.