You cannot possibly be doing more polling for data than I am.

I don't do the F5 box but I do poll TONS of stuff out of the core switch 
complex along with our content switch complex and our internet DMZ firewalls / 
routers / accelerators.

I would be very surprised if you could get NetView to break a sweat doing data 
collection. 10 minutes is quite suitable. I would say you'd be good at least 
out of the gate. I am currently running on Sun blade 100s but my ultra 10 
development systems had no trouble with it either.

Obviously, ramp up slowly - one box at a time but I don't think you are going 
to have an issue on current software with a solid performing box.

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Subject: [nv-l] SNMP polling


NetView 7.1.3 AIX 4.3.3

I have some F5 load balancers that store current values and error conditions
that can be read via a SNMP query. My question is, how reasonable is it to
poll these values every 10 minutes or so? Would this have any negative
effects on NV? Right now we are looking at 3 or 4 of these devices, but if I
open the door to this type of polling it could expand.

Thoughts?

Thanks,

Scott Bursik
PepsiCo Business Solutions Group