Multiple Collectors
Hello,
I was wondering in what the scenario would you need more than one collector deployed in an environment.
Also would you suggest a virtual appliance that sits in the datacenter or ...
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Mike_Moniz
Professor
ProfessorYeah, it depends far more on what you are monitoring per device then the number of devices you have. Monitoring all the shares on a windows file server via WMI will put more load then doing SNMP on a switch.
I personally don't have a lot of experience in balancing collectors myself and Auto-Balanced Collector Groups (ABCG) are very new and I haven't played with them. I would likely setting up 1 (or 2 for failover) in an auto-balanced group per site and then grow with more collectors as needed. But as I haven't used ABCG perhaps others on the forums can make better suggestions or you can open a chat with LM to look at your particular environment, especially about choosing small/med/large.
