Hi, I have asked this question in theDude forum, however this forum seems more logical for such a question:
I am looking for a Mikrotik router that will be used mainly as a dude server.
Main Requirements:
Rack mounted
Dual power supplies
RAM>= 2GB
I am confused from the website, and I am afraid to order a router that sounds as a good one, then I find out that it doesn’t support TheDude.
Please advice (preferably from a MikroTik person, or if there is an official document about that)
The RB1100AHx4 Dude Edition matches your specification perfectly -
https://mikrotik.com/product/RB1100Dx4
I can tell you first hand it’s quite good as a router and Dude server.
It is only 1GB RAM
Why do you need more ram if the only purpose is to run the dude server?
I am using The Dude as the main monitoring system, and it is a large setup.
I am not sure if 1 GB is large enough or not, but it seems to me as a small amount of RAM for such a system. The ix86 version I m using now has 2 GB, and it has only 100MB free out of the 2GB.
This is why I wanted an offecial reply from Mikrotik for they should know the capacity of their application. , not other users experience, though it is much appreciated.
The best is your own test. Power on a chr, give it 2gb of ram, import your database and see how it behaves. Then lower the ram to 1gb and after that to 512mb or even lower to see the difference right in your case. Then you will know…
Not a good scenario, chr has even more limitation factor if 1Mbps BW which is totally unsuitable.
No. You can register unlimited trial license for free…
keep in mind the dude uses only one core
in comparison x86 core performs many X times better vs tile, arm, or mips core
any mikrotik routerboard will have less performance than x86 box for the dude server
integrating the dude server on routerboard devices (rb750gr3, rb1100ahx4, CCR devices) is recommended for specific cases of small monitoring systems, no way of doing big monitoring on this devices with good performance
for big monitoring systems even on big x86 devices the dude have serious limitations specially when consulting very large set of data for graphing etc
in many implementations you have to split big monitoring systems in multiple virtualized machines to improve peroformance and take advantage of multicore cpu on a server (or pc)
another recommendation is to host the dude server’s on a good SSD drive to improve their performance
mikrotik licenses are cheap, to mount virtualized machines 50us license are ok
If I remember well, I saw dude occupying all virtual cores in 750Gr3.