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Departmental Data Center

In this use case, monitoring is required for 1000 systems, all contained within one data center. All systems are in one location, within the firewall, and fast links exist between the computers.

Recommendations for this environment are:

• Component Installation

  All CA Server Automation manager components can be installed on the same system.

• Initial Deployment

  Two jobs could be created to deploy the monitoring software to all target nodes. Depending on network load, the initial deployment of SystemEDGE (and Advanced Encryption if necessary), would be expected to complete in 8 to 12 hours.

  Once deployment to remote systems has completed, the CA Server Automation Manager discovers SystemEDGE. Policy Configuration delivers an initial policy to each agent. We expect the initial policy delivery to complete approximately eight hours after the completion of the job.

• Service membership

  For ease of maintenance, it is suggested to align the monitored servers into Services, with approximately 200 servers per Service. Services could be aligned to business function, network topology, or other categorization as desired.

• Applying Policies

  If necessary, applying policies to all monitored systems can be performed in a single operation.