Chapter 2 Deployment Planning
Scalable Deployments
Factors in Network Sizing
You can use the following data points for computing product network usage. The following numbers average tasks based on the upper limit of a 100,000 agent deployment.
Agent and Configuration Statistics
•Number of agents: 100,000
•Polling interval: 24 hours
•Event retention: 60 days
•Event updates: 3 per agent per day
Task Size Statistics
•Hint message: 1 Kb
•Poll size: 2 Kb
•Event update size: 2.5 Kb
•Policy update size: 35 Kb
•Agent update size: 9,000 Kb
•Agent update (with CTA): 16,000 Kb
•Tracker (Product only): 100 Kb
•Tracker (Product and
•Tracker (Product and verbose network): 8,000 Kb
Tracker Agent Installation Statistics
•Number of agents in Tracker (Product only) group: 1,000
•Number of agents in Tracker (Product and
•Number of agents in Tracker (Product and verbose network) group: 10
Bandwidth Statistics
•Downstream from CSA MC: 1333.33 Kb/sec, continuous
•Upstream to CSA MC: 3600 Kb/sec, continuous
•Policy update (downstream): 5833.33 Kb/sec, during update timeframe
•Agent update (downstream): 2666666.67 Kb/sec, during update timeframe
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