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Disk Space Requirements

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list Brad Rodgers · Wed, 14 Nov 2018 07:56:41 -0600 ·
Good morning!

I am attempting to spin up my first Xymon server and would like advice on system requirements, primarily disk space required but CPU count and RAM would also be greatly be appreciated.  Looking at initially monitoring 20 hosts and would like some room to grow.  Most likely will be running Xymon on FreeBSD.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thank you!
Brad

Brad Rodgers
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list Josh Luthman · Wed, 14 Nov 2018 09:02:02 -0500 ·
I'm 4/20 gig after 495 days of uptime.  Graphs for 30 hosts.  I have data
from an older server that started probably 2006.

Xymon is not disk intensive, it's all text and RRD.

Josh Luthman
Office: XXX-XXX-XXXX
Direct: XXX-XXX-XXXX
XXXX Wayne St
Suite XXXX
Troy, OH XXXXX
quoted from Brad Rodgers

On Wed, Nov 14, 2018, 8:56 AM Brad Rodgers <user-b23ead5746d4@xymon.invalid wrote:
Good morning!

I am attempting to spin up my first Xymon server and would like advice on
system requirements, primarily disk space required but CPU count and RAM
would also be greatly be appreciated.  Looking at initially monitoring 20
hosts and would like some room to grow.  Most likely will be running Xymon
on FreeBSD.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thank you!
Brad

*Brad Rodgers*
Director of Administrative Technology
XXX.XXX.XXXX
user-b23ead5746d4@xymon.invalid

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quoted from Brad Rodgers


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list Dennis Riley · Wed, 14 Nov 2018 09:14:39 -0500 ·
Brad,

  100 hosts with 2 years of history, 5 GBs used including the OS (CentOS 7).

    D.


*From:* Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] *On Behalf Of *Josh Luthman
*Sent:* Wednesday, November 14, 2018 9:02 AM
*To:* Brad Rodgers <user-b23ead5746d4@xymon.invalid>
*Cc:* xymon at xymon.com
*Subject:* Re: [Xymon] Disk Space Requirements
quoted from Josh Luthman


I'm 4/20 gig after 495 days of uptime.  Graphs for 30 hosts.  I have data
from an older server that started probably 2006.


Xymon is not disk intensive, it's all text and RRD.

Josh Luthman
Office: XXX-XXX-XXXX
Direct: XXX-XXX-XXXX
XXXX Wayne St
Suite XXXX
Troy, OH XXXXX


On Wed, Nov 14, 2018, 8:56 AM Brad Rodgers <user-b23ead5746d4@xymon.invalid wrote:

Good morning!


I am attempting to spin up my first Xymon server and would like advice on
system requirements, primarily disk space required but CPU count and RAM
would also be greatly be appreciated.  Looking at initially monitoring 20
hosts and would like some room to grow.  Most likely will be running Xymon
on FreeBSD.


Any help would be greatly appreciated!


Thank you!

Brad


*Brad Rodgers*
Director of Administrative Technology
XXX.XXX.XXXX
user-b23ead5746d4@xymon.invalid

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list Kris Springer · Wed, 14 Nov 2018 08:19:24 -0700 ·
I've got a Xymon VM server that's monitoring 100 hosts, mostly 
collecting PowerShell Client data from Windows clients.
Disk = 10G and has filled to 86% after 3 years.  I'll probably need to 
expand it a little bit one of these days.
CPU = 1 core, utilization hovers around 1%
Ram = 2G, utilization hovers around 15%

I've got another Xymon server running at a client location on a 
Raspberry Pi.  It's been running for 2 years with no trouble.

I had one running on AWS once, but had trouble with backups and 
migration, so I abandoned AWS.

The beauty of Xymon is that it can run very lean.  I normally use Ubuntu 
headless server, but I got it working easily on Raspbian too.

Kris Springer
quoted from Dennis Riley


On 11/14/18 7:14 AM, Dennis Riley wrote:
Brad,

  100 hosts with 2 years of history, 5 GBs used including the OS 
(CentOS 7).

    D.

*From:*Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com 
quoted from Dennis Riley
<mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com>] *On Behalf Of *Josh Luthman
*Sent:* Wednesday, November 14, 2018 9:02 AM

*To:* Brad Rodgers <user-b23ead5746d4@xymon.invalid <mailto:user-b23ead5746d4@xymon.invalid>>
*Cc:* xymon at xymon.com <mailto:xymon at xymon.com>
quoted from Dennis Riley
*Subject:* Re: [Xymon] Disk Space Requirements

I'm 4/20 gig after 495 days of uptime. Graphs for 30 hosts.  I have 
data from an older server that started probably 2006.

Xymon is not disk intensive, it's all text and RRD.

Josh Luthman
Office: XXX-XXX-XXXX
Direct: XXX-XXX-XXXX
XXXX Wayne St
Suite XXXX
Troy, OH XXXXX

On Wed, Nov 14, 2018, 8:56 AM Brad Rodgers <user-b23ead5746d4@xymon.invalid 
<mailto:user-b23ead5746d4@xymon.invalid> wrote:

    Good morning!

    I am attempting to spin up my first Xymon server and would like
    advice on system requirements, primarily disk space required but
    CPU count and RAM would also be greatly be appreciated.  Looking
    at initially monitoring 20 hosts and would like some room to
    grow.  Most likely will be running Xymon on FreeBSD.

    Any help would be greatly appreciated!

    Thank you!

    Brad

    *Brad Rodgers*
    Director of Administrative Technology
    XXX.XXX.XXXX

    user-b23ead5746d4@xymon.invalid <mailto:user-b23ead5746d4@xymon.invalid>
quoted from Dennis Riley

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list Ralph Mitchell · Wed, 14 Nov 2018 10:25:53 -0500 ·
xymongen tells me I have 3848 hosts on 447 pages.  Of those, about 1800 are
registers, with another 400 seasonal registers that are just starting to be
spun up for the holidays.

Ralph Mitchell


On Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 10:19 AM Kris Springer <user-c2caa0a7a8d5@xymon.invalid>
quoted from Kris Springer
wrote:
I've got a Xymon VM server that's monitoring 100 hosts, mostly collecting
PowerShell Client data from Windows clients.
Disk = 10G and has filled to 86% after 3 years.  I'll probably need to
expand it a little bit one of these days.
CPU = 1 core, utilization hovers around 1%
Ram = 2G, utilization hovers around 15%

I've got another Xymon server running at a client location on a Raspberry
Pi.  It's been running for 2 years with no trouble.

I had one running on AWS once, but had trouble with backups and migration,
so I abandoned AWS.

The beauty of Xymon is that it can run very lean.  I normally use Ubuntu
headless server, but I got it working easily on Raspbian too.

Kris Springer


On 11/14/18 7:14 AM, Dennis Riley wrote:

Brad,

  100 hosts with 2 years of history, 5 GBs used including the OS (CentOS
7).

    D.


*From:* Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] *On Behalf Of *Josh Luthman
*Sent:* Wednesday, November 14, 2018 9:02 AM
*To:* Brad Rodgers <user-b23ead5746d4@xymon.invalid>
*Cc:* xymon at xymon.com
*Subject:* Re: [Xymon] Disk Space Requirements


I'm 4/20 gig after 495 days of uptime.  Graphs for 30 hosts.  I have data
from an older server that started probably 2006.


Xymon is not disk intensive, it's all text and RRD.

Josh Luthman
Office: XXX-XXX-XXXX
Direct: XXX-XXX-XXXX
XXXX Wayne St
Suite XXXX
Troy, OH XXXXX


On Wed, Nov 14, 2018, 8:56 AM Brad Rodgers <user-b23ead5746d4@xymon.invalid wrote:

Good morning!


I am attempting to spin up my first Xymon server and would like advice on
system requirements, primarily disk space required but CPU count and RAM
would also be greatly be appreciated.  Looking at initially monitoring 20
hosts and would like some room to grow.  Most likely will be running Xymon
on FreeBSD.


Any help would be greatly appreciated!


Thank you!

Brad


*Brad Rodgers*
Director of Administrative Technology
XXX.XXX.XXXX
user-b23ead5746d4@xymon.invalid

[image: Educational Service Is Our Middle Name] <http://www.cesa7.org/>;


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list Mike Burger · Wed, 14 Nov 2018 12:01:41 -0500 ·
quoted from Ralph Mitchell
On 2018-11-14 10:25, Ralph Mitchell wrote:
xymongen tells me I have 3848 hosts on 447 pages.  Of those, about
1800 are registers, with another 400 seasonal registers that are just
starting to be spun up for the holidays.

Ralph Mitchell

On Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 10:19 AM Kris Springer
<user-c2caa0a7a8d5@xymon.invalid> wrote:
I've got a Xymon VM server that's monitoring 100 hosts, mostly
collecting PowerShell Client data from Windows clients.
Disk = 10G and has filled to 86% after 3 years.  I'll probably need
to expand it a little bit one of these days.
CPU = 1 core, utilization hovers around 1%
Ram = 2G, utilization hovers around 15%

I've got another Xymon server running at a client location on a
Raspberry Pi.  It's been running for 2 years with no trouble.

I had one running on AWS once, but had trouble with backups and
migration, so I abandoned AWS.

The beauty of Xymon is that it can run very lean.  I normally use
Ubuntu headless server, but I got it working easily on Raspbian too.

Kris Springer

On 11/14/18 7:14 AM, Dennis Riley wrote:

Brad,

100 hosts with 2 years of history, 5 GBs used including the OS
(CentOS 7).

D.

FROM: Xymon [mailto:xymon-bounces at xymon.com] ON BEHALF OF Josh
Luthman
SENT: Wednesday, November 14, 2018 9:02 AM
TO: Brad Rodgers <user-b23ead5746d4@xymon.invalid>
CC: xymon at xymon.com
SUBJECT: Re: [Xymon] Disk Space Requirements

I'm 4/20 gig after 495 days of uptime.  Graphs for 30 hosts.  I have
data from an older server that started probably 2006.

Xymon is not disk intensive, it's all text and RRD.

Josh Luthman
Office: XXX-XXX-XXXX
Direct: XXX-XXX-XXXX
XXXX Wayne St
Suite XXXX
Troy, OH XXXXX

On Wed, Nov 14, 2018, 8:56 AM Brad Rodgers <user-b23ead5746d4@xymon.invalid
wrote:

Good morning!

I am attempting to spin up my first Xymon server and would like
advice on system requirements, primarily disk space required but CPU
count and RAM would also be greatly be appreciated.  Looking at
initially monitoring 20 hosts and would like some room to grow.
Most likely will be running Xymon on FreeBSD.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Thank you!

Brad

BRAD RODGERS
Director of Administrative Technology
XXX.XXX.XXXX
user-b23ead5746d4@xymon.invalid
Currently monitoring 535 servers on a system that was first installed 6 years ago, my setup is using 16G of a 20G filesystem. Everything is installed in and running from that filesystem, including all RRD DBs.

15G of that is in the data directory, with 11G of that residing in the data/hostdata and 3.9G of residing in data/histlogs.

-- 
Mike Burger
http://www.bubbanfriends.org

"It's always suicide-mission this, save-the-planet that. No one ever just stops by to say 'hi' anymore." --Colonel Jack O'Neill, SG1
list Dave "doughnut" Fogarty · Wed, 14 Nov 2018 10:49:13 -0800 (PST) ·
I've been running BB/Hobbit/Xymon for almost 20 years, but the data goes 
back about 4 1/2 years.  There are 4 other xymonnet servers reporting to 
this main server, but they don't accumulate history.

  Hosts            :   497
  Status messages  :  5836

  18G     /var/lib/xymon/
list Isaac W Traxler · Wed, 14 Nov 2018 13:39:43 -0600 (CST) ·
A lot of years also.

  Hosts                      :   439
  Pages                      :    26
  Status messages            :  1682

23 GB

--
Isaac Traxler
Storage & Infrastructure Manager
High Performance Computing
Louisiana State University, LONI
325 Frey Computing Center, Baton Rouge, LA XXXXX
XXX-XXX-XXXX | user-4dfb0dbf036e@xymon.invalid
quoted from Dave "doughnut" Fogarty


On Wed, 14 Nov 2018, Dave "doughnut" Fogarty wrote:
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2018 12:49:13
From: Dave "doughnut" Fogarty <user-138a88324cb7@xymon.invalid>
To: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: Re: [Xymon] Disk Space Requirements

I've been running BB/Hobbit/Xymon for almost 20 years, but the data goes back 
about 4 1/2 years.  There are 4 other xymonnet servers reporting to this main 
server, but they don't accumulate history.

Hosts            :   497
Status messages  :  5836

18G     /var/lib/xymon/

list Brad Rodgers · Wed, 14 Nov 2018 16:03:40 -0600 ·
Thank you to everyone who responded and provided their storage arrangements.  I appreciate it!
quoted from Ralph Mitchell

-Brad

Brad Rodgers
Director of Administrative Technology
XXX.XXX.XXXX
user-b23ead5746d4@xymon.invalid


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Isaac W Traxler <user-4dfb0dbf036e@xymon.invalid> 11/14/2018 1:39 PM >>>
quoted from Isaac W Traxler
A lot of years also.

  Hosts   				   :   439
  Pages   				   :    26
  Status messages   		 :  1682

23 GB

--
Isaac Traxler
Storage & Infrastructure Manager
High Performance Computing
Louisiana State University, LONI
325 Frey Computing Center, Baton Rouge, LA XXXXX
XXX-XXX-XXXX | user-4dfb0dbf036e@xymon.invalid


On Wed, 14 Nov 2018, Dave "doughnut" Fogarty wrote:
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2018 12:49:13
From: Dave "doughnut" Fogarty <user-138a88324cb7@xymon.invalid>
To: xymon at xymon.com
Subject: Re: [Xymon] Disk Space Requirements

I've been running BB/Hobbit/Xymon for almost 20 years, but the data goes back 
about 4 1/2 years.  There are 4 other xymonnet servers reporting to this main 
server, but they don't accumulate history.

Hosts		    :   497
Status messages  :  5836

18G	 /var/lib/xymon/

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list Stef Coene · Fri, 16 Nov 2018 08:06:58 +0100 ·
quoted from Brad Rodgers
On 14/11/18 14:56, Brad Rodgers wrote:
Good morning!

I am attempting to spin up my first Xymon server and would like advice on system requirements, primarily disk space required but CPU count and RAM would also be greatly be appreciated.  Looking at initially monitoring 20 hosts and would like some room to grow.  Most likely will be running Xymon on FreeBSD.
I have around 50 xymon instances running.

The required space depends mainly on how many changes you have.
We have some major issues with devmon so we have a lot of changes between clear and green. Each change is saved to a file and that can use a lot of space. If you are not interested in the details of all these changes, they can be safely removed.

We also have added extra arrays and extra data points to our rrds so they hold more data. That also also uses extra space but not that much.


Stef