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Installation Guide for the Cisco MGC Node Manager 2.5(2)

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Chapter 1 Installation Overview and Planning

Determine Your Hardware Requirements

• Cisco MGC Node Manager installed on a network management server and Cisco VSPT installed on

a separate server.

Note Other element managers may be installed on the network management server.

Caution Cisco MGC Node Manager should not be installed on a Cisco PGW 2200 host machine.

Hardware Requirements

The Cisco MGC hardware requirements for various network sizes are described in Table 1-1. In addition,

except in a very small network, each operator requires an X terminal workstation.

Note Disk drive requirements are based on the number of drives. The CEMF host machine requires at least

the number of drives indicated in Table 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

Table 1-1 Hardware Requirements for Cisco MGC Node Manager Host Machine(s)

Network Element

Small Network

1-3 Operators

1-5 Nodes

24 trap / min

Medium Network

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 server

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)

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 GB 4 x 1.05 GB

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