Performance Issues

Question

Hi there...

I'm looking for feedback.  We currently have two physical servers in place - one box that runs IPAM, NPM, NCM, and APM... the other server is a SQL 2008 database server.

Both servers are dual xeon servers with 16GB of RAM and very fast disks (15K SAS RAID 10).  The SQL server has an external 15K SAS drive array running RAID10.

The issue is purely performance.  We have talked to technical support a while back about how many node we should be able to monitor etc and roughly speaking were told 8,000 or so shouldn't be a problem.

At this moment we have 3043 elements, 914 nodes, 1952 interfaces, and 177 volumes tracked in NPM.

In the 10.2 release we can also see that our polling rate is 14% of it's maximum.

With all of this in mind, when we login to the web interface and navigate around it's sometimes 3-4 seconds between clicks before the page starts to load.  This is the way it's always been for us since day one.  Lately at times it's hitting 12-15 seconds.  With what I know, I'm trying to figure out why I'm measuring this in seconds at all - it should be really fast no??

Appreciate any input...

Paul

pstewart726 · Answer

Sorry - didn't answer your questions though.  CPU averages 5% and memory consumption is around 3GB normally.

pstewart726 · Answer

Thanks - I ran some DB maintenance early this morning and that seems to have helped quite a bit.  Compressed the DB etc

Will open ticket if this issue shows up again - appreciate the input.

tomas.mrkvicka · Answer

What about processes on application server? Is there any SolarWinds process which has high CPU or memory utilization?

In general I don't think you should have performance issue with mentioned amount of elements. Probably best way how to help would be directly via online meeting.