Chapter 2 Deployment Planning
Scalable Deployments
•How long should a pilot program run? Basically, the deploying and tuning of policies is an iterative process. Initially, you will have a great deal of event log noise to parse. You must examine the data coming in and edit your policies accordingly.
Details:
–Although every site is different, it would not be unusual to run a pilot program for approximately 90 days. All possible application usage should take place within the pilot time frame. It is important to note that this recommended time frame allows you to exercise applications, their deployment and usage, within an entire fiscal quarter. The idea being, every application you use and every manner is which you use it will occur during this piloting period.
Scalable Deployments
The Cisco Security Agent V5.x release offers scaling of agents to 100,000 systems. To reach this deployment number, there are recommended
Hardware Sizing
This section provides three server configuration examples and three hardware configuration examples. The server and hardware combinations will be charted in three tables providing information on how many agents can be deployed using each server and hardware configuration combination. This should give you an idea of how to configure CSA to scale up to a 100,000 agent deployment.
For the purpose of this guide, we will use three server configuration examples.
Server Configurations:
1.Single server
2.Two servers: one server for polling and configuration, one database server
3.Three servers: one server for polling, one server for configuration, one database server
We will use the following hardware configurations.
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