One of our remote sites was broken into and two IBM ThinkCentre computers were stolen. One had a 256MB CF card with ROS 4.11 and Dude. The other one was running 2K3AS with Kiwi Syslog Server.
I replaced the one machine with an RB450G running Dude. We’re still building a replacement server.
My Dude setup is as follows:
I have a 2K3 Advanced Server in our data centre running Dude 4 beta something. It then has a couple of agents. Most of them are Intel based machines running ROS that talk to the main machine.
I sometimes get timeouts with the Intel based machines. However this isn’t happening with the RB450G. It seems to me to be much faster than the stolen P4 with 1GB of RAM ever was.
So now the burning question: Can I safely replace all the Intel based machines with RB450Gs? Can I even go so far as to move the main Dude from the 2K3 machine onto a RB450G?
Sorry about your nightmare. Hope you figure out a way to stop that sort of thing. The obvious is to backup frequently, but that cant help physical problems like yours.
Seems like you were leveraging x86 Dude agents. A 450G would suffice for up to a certain size network to monitor. However, it cant handle anything beyond a medium sized network with no native objects in the actual 450G dude instance. In other words, if you try to run a full fledged Dude instance, you might never get a response from the 450G again! I have tested this on a 433AH which has a fast processor, and enough mass storage to make it work. However, this test was not good. The response times to the Dude on 433AH were unusable. The processor was maxed out and maps and polling ceased to be functional. I believe the config on the 450G is almost identical.
Dont know if you were contemplating running your ‘master’ Dude instance, but if you were, IMHO you would be wasting your time. I have tried the same test on an RB1000 with a large CF card installed for the datastore. Again, for a full Dude installation, the performance was underwhelming. It worked, but it has bottlenecks similar to the other boards, just incrementally faster than the 450G. That would mean about twice as fast as very very slow. Even ‘slow’ x86 machines always work well, and I have put the Dude on a lot of PCs.
As an aside, I have installed a 64GB SSD SATA drive in a Dell 850, and the boot times, and overall performance is impressive. I can barely open up a DOS window to ping the server to see if its up after a reboot, and its already accessible with ‘all systems up and running’. The winbox and Dude performance is noticably faster than any other implementation I have put up. Winbox just ‘snaps’ onto the screen with imperceptible delay. I must add that the RB1000 feels the same with winbox, likely because natively it would be totally solid state mass storage, but Dude just bottlenecks it.
Hope this helps you to not waste any more time. I have already done that for you! Good luck…