Scalability and best practices for SNMP based- data collection


This section describes some best practices that you can use while configuring a device PATROL for Light Weight Protocols for monitoring network devices based on SNMP data collection.

The following tables provide information about the tested configuration scenarios. It also provides the information on the PATROL Agent performance and the application performance with respect to CPU utilization, memory, and threads in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.5:

#

Number of devices

Total instance

Parameter

PATROL Agent

JAVA

Collection Interval

Threads

Memory

(MB)

CPU

(%)

Memory

(MB)

CPU

(%)

1

100

500

3000

45.4

5

127

0-12

5

110

2

400

2000

12000

57.5

6-12

167

12-35

5

410

3

1000

5000

30000

101

25

275.86

30%

5

1010

4

1500

7123

45000

125

30

373.34

33%

5

1510

 

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