Hi all,
I am currently having Whats Up Gold in our Organization and it is not stable with the large number of nodes (500+) in my network.
So we are to migrate to a new NMS which is possible to monitor my network efficiently.
Is anyone tried Dude 3 beta7 on a network which have nodes about 500?
Also Dude is using MikroTik proprietary database system. will it be able to handle large number og nodes? is it better than MSSQL ?
please send me your ideas.
Tnx,
Isuru
Simple short answer: Yes.
As the size of your network grows though, you may want to look at your polling interval. A relatively short polling interval with many devices starts to create quite a bit of local traffic from your Dude server. I have about 475 devices presently and have increased my polling interval to 2 minutes with a down count of 3. How fast you need notification of a failure though is something only you can answer. One thing you can do though is set your critical devices, (main database server) to a shorter polling interval while all other devices use the longer default polling interval. This way you can get a quick failure notification for your critical devices and a more relaxed notification for everything else.
The Dude database is a standard XML format that you can look at with any text editor although an XML editor works better. Most data is kept in standard flat text files (outage history, etc.). I use NMIS though for tracking usage/performance data for my Cisco routers. Dude is fine for a quick look at the usage for a given link but long term tracking of usage/performance data is not it’s strong point.