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Additional polling engine questions

I have a customer that requires that I save performance and netflow stats for 1 year uncompressed. I don't really want to do this for all of my nodes since the database would be astronomical in size.

My question is, what does the additional polling engine get you? Can you take the polled elements from the additional poller and send them to a separate sql db on the same sql box? Can I in NPM scale to keep data longer than 180 days?

I really only need to monitor 10 to 12 nodes with 1-3 interfaces each and be able to keep the data for a year. I am currently running:

SLX on a Precision 670 w/W2K3 sp2

SQL2000 on a separate Precision 670 w/W2K3 sp2

Could I run the second poller on the same machine or do I need to have it on a different machine?

What kind of disk space would I need for the above scenario?

Thanks in advance for your help

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FormerMember

Second poller goes to the same database, so no help there. Second poller must be a separate box. For NetFlow, you could get a small Orion + NetFlow (e.g. SL100) for less than an additional poller and restrict it to those 10-12 nodes. We are working on a new product that will allow you to view data from mutliple Orion databases in a single product, which would allow you to maintain on common view of that data.

WHAT

I might not need the db separation. Could I set the second poller to longer historical times than the main poller? Also, is there a way around the 180 day limit on NPM?

FormerMember

yes

WHAT

ok, I have distilled my requirements down. I need to have longer historical stats and netflow stats on selected nodes and interfaces. Can I do that currently or will an additional poller with just those nodes and interfaces added work? I need a better answer than "yes".

stephenspa

Hi Denny

When is the new product you mention to view data from multiple Orion databases going to be available ? This is exactly what we need and want. Will it be and Orion release or a completly new product ?

mark_wiggans

Hi Denny
When is the new product you mention to view data from multiple Orion databases going to be available ? This is exactly what we need and want. Will it be and Orion release or a completly new product ?

It is in beta now, known as the EOC v1.0 (Enterprise Orion Console). This will be an entirely separate product from Orion v9.

FormerMember

Could I set the second poller to longer historical times than the main poller?

I think I mis-understood your question. Retention is set on a per database basis.

Also, is there a way around the 180 day limit on NPM?

I'm checking on this one.

WHAT

Ok, so the SL100 route is looking like the only option at this point.

stephenspa

Thanks Mark.

Do you need any Beta testers ? if so we would be up for that. I've got another two Orion deployments that we were going to migrate to one, this will save us lots of time and effort.