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The following server specifications are guidelines for NMIS installations.  Storage performance is one of the greatest factors for scaling polling, you should consider using highly performant storage like SSD.
The ideal way to determine specifications for your server is to baseline some nodes on the server and determine what resources are required.



SmallMediumLargeMassive
OS Storage20GB20GB20GB20GB
Data Storage40GB60GB140GB280GB
Memory2GB4-8GB4GB8GB16GB32GB+
CPU2 x vCPU2 to 4 x vCPU4 to 6 8 x vCPU816+ vCPU
Device Count< 500 devices< 1500 devices< 2500 devices

A very large
number of devices

Element Count2000 elements8000 elements14000 elementsA very large number
of elements

Elements are additional data being collected, an interface is an element, a CBQoS class is an element.

An element requires additional SNMP polling to collect the values and then storage on the disk to save the data.

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To optimise how NMIS files are saved, you can use the JSON database, this will require NMIS 8.4.8g or greater.  The following needs to be run on every master Primary and poller server in an NMIS cluster and this should be co-ordinated to run very close together.

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