<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META NAME="Generator" CONTENT="MS Exchange Server version 6.5.7226.0"> <TITLE>RE: [Nagios-users] Best Server?</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY>  My thoughts from much opinion : whatever you do, avoid Dell. In terms of speed, I'm currently monitoring 175 hosts and 3900 services on a dual xeon 2.4ghz server with 4 gigs of memory and 3 15k 73 gig scsi drives in raid 5. I'm using perfparse for graphing on almost all of the services, and checking every 10 seconds or so. It's not even breaking a sweat, with cpu usage around 12% combined usage, and about 600megs of memory used.. Running an untuned redhat enterprise 3. -----Original Message----- From: nagios-users-admin@lists.sourceforge.net on behalf of Jan Scholten Sent: Sun 11/28/2004 6:22 PM To: nagiosusers Subject: [Nagios-users] Best Server? Hi! I am in the glorious position to choose what kind of server should be bought for the monitoring server. But actually i have no Idea where to put stress on. I am using Nagios 1.2 to monitor about 200 Hosts and 400 Services but that will be alot ( maybe + 600 Services) more when everything is proper configured. Actually i am running Nagios on a Celeron 300 with 128 Meg under Debain testing, works but starts lagging (load up to 15) and webside is kinda slow. So i got the following question from purchasing guy: What sort of spec do you think would be appropriate? What make/model CPU? Single CPU or multiple? How much RAM? I believe because of the lots of spawned processes a Dual CPU would be fine and some RAM. What would you recommend (be realistic i don't want to have a Dual XXX that is idleing all the time)? I was thinking about either a small Dual System (better opteron or Xeon?) with around a gig of ram. Or a single AMD64 or P4 with a gig of RAM. A configured Dell Server: Dual Xeon 2.8, 1 Gig Ram, 2 *40 GB Raid 1 Harddisks is about 1800 Euro. a selfbuild P4 3.2 will be definitly cheaper :-) Jan ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. <A HREF="http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/">http://productguide.itmanagersjournal.com/</A> _______________________________________________ Nagios-users mailing list Nagios-users@lists.sourceforge.net <A HREF="https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users">https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nagios-users</A> ::: Please include Nagios version, plugin version (-v) and OS when reporting any issue. ::: Messages without supporting info will risk being sent to /dev/null </BODY> </HTML>