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Installation Guide for the Cisco MGC Node Manager 2.5(2)
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Chapter1 Installation Overview and Planning
Determine Your Hardware Requirements
•Cisco MGC Node Manager installed on a network management server and Cisco V SPT installed on
a separate server.
Note Other element managers may be installed o n the network ma nage me nt ser ver.
Caution Cisco MGC Node Manager should not be installed on a C isco PG W 2 200 ho st m achine .
Hardware Requirements
The Cisco MGC hardware requirements for various network sizes are described in Tabl e 1-1. In addition ,
except in a very small network, each operator requires an X terminal workstation.
Note Disk drive requirements are based on th e n umb er o f d rives. Th e C EMF host ma ch in e re qu ires at least
the number of drives indicated in Tab le 1-1 .
Note These are recommendations to aid you in planning. The total amount of disk space required depends on
many factors, such as the amount of alarm and performance data collected.
Disk Drives and Database Storage
In a medium to large network, using multiple disk drives to store the databases helps alleviate I/O
bottlenecks and improves software performance. If you are using multiple disk drives for database
storage, or you expect to generate large database files, use raw partitions, as described in the
Table1-1 Hardware Requirements for CiscoMGC Node Manager Host Machine(s)
Network Element
Small Network
1-3 Operators
1-5 Nodes
24 trap / min
Medium Network1
4-5 Operators
6-10 Nodes
36-42 traps / min
1. Presentation and Management servers may run co-resident for medium networks when faster Sun CPUs are used or operator loads are light. Add more
Presentation servers to increase the number of operators supported.
Large Network
6-9 Operators
11-20 Nodes
42-54 traps / min
Configuration 1 workstation Client Server Client Server
Presentation server Management
server Presentation server2
2. Additional Presentation Servers may be added to maintain good operator response time in large networks with heavy alarm traffic.
Management
server
RAM (GB) 2 2 2 2 4
Swap (GB) 4 2 4 2 8
Disk drives (9 GB
minimum) 43
3. 2 drive machines will work for smaller networks with less traffic and fewer operators. Response time to operator commands slows down as the network
grows and additional operators are added.
1414-6
CPU (MHz) 2 x 440-1.05 GB 2 x 440-1.05 GB 2 x 440-1.05 GB 4 x 1 .05 G B 4 x 1.05 GB