Cloud Probe deployment options
The Real User Cloud Probe monitors the network performance of traffic to a virtual machine through a cloud provider. The Cloud Probe sends information through the Real User Collector on a BMC Real End User Experience Monitoring system. You must plan your distribution of Real User Collectors and Real User Cloud Probes, so that you know to which Real User Collector you will connect each Cloud Probe. When planning your installation, consider the following deployment options, listed in order of recommendation by BMC:
Installation of Cloud Probe on a dedicated system
BMC recommends that you install the Cloud Probe on a dedicated Windows or Linux computer in which you have enabled Promiscuous Mode/Accept on the capture ports. As shown in the following illustration, this deployment option also requires a network tap.
Dedicated system for deploying Real User Cloud Probe
Installation of Cloud Probe on a load-balancing system
When the recommended deployment option is not suitable for your environment, consider installing the Cloud Probe on the system that provides the load-balancing operations for the application.
Load-balancer as a deployment option for the Real User Cloud Probe
Installation of Cloud Probe on a web server
You can also install the Real User Cloud Probe on your web servers. This approach is not optimal as it consumes resources from the web server. Should you adopt this option, you must install the Real User Cloud Probe on each web server.
Web server as a deployment option for the Real User Cloud Probe
For information on preparing the network interface card (NIC) for traffic capture, see Configuring-the-monitored-network-interface-card-for-the-Cloud-Probe.
Related topics
Deployment use cases: Per-traffic-volume
Deployment use cases: Per-data-center
Deployment use cases: Segment-based-deployment
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Installing-the-Real-User-Cloud-Probe
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