Supported Hardware; Proof Of Concept Configuration - Novell SENTINEL 6.1 SP2 - INSTALLATION GUIDE 02-2010 Installation Manual

 The Sentinel Server has a default 5 GB of disk space for temporarily caching event data that
fails to insert into the database.
The Sentinel Server also has a default 5 GB of disk space for events that fail to be written to
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aggregation event files.
The optional Advisor subscription requires an additional 50 GB of disk space on the database
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server.
The hardware recommendations for a Sentinel implementation can vary based on the individual
implementation, so you should consult Novell Consulting Services prior to finalizing the Sentinel
architecture. The recommendations in this section can be used as guidelines.
NOTE: The Sentinel Server machine with Data Access Server (DAS) must have a local or shared
striped disk array (RAID) with a minimum of four disk spindles because of high event loads and
local caching.
The distributed hosts must be connected to the other Sentinel Server hosts through a single high-
speed switch (GigE) in order to prevent network traffic bottlenecks.
Novell recommends that the Crystal Reports Server be installed on its own dedicated machine,
particularly if the database is large or reporting usage is heavy. Crystal can be installed on the same
machine as the database if the database is small, the reporting usage is light, and the database is
installed on either Windows or Linux and not Solaris.

2.2.2 Supported Hardware

When you install Sentinel on Linux or Windows, the Sentinel server and database components can
run on x86 (32-bit) or x86-64 (64-bit) hardware, with some exceptions based on the operating
system, as described in Section 2.2.1, "Architecture Considerations," on page
certified on AMD* Opteron* and Intel* Xeon* hardware. Itanium* servers are not supported.
For Solaris, the SPARC architecture is supported.

2.2.3 Proof of Concept Configuration

The proof of concept configuration supports up to 1350 events per second (EPS). This configuration
is suitable for demonstrations or limited proofs of concept and can be installed by using the Simple
option in the Sentinel installer. This configuration is not recommended for use in a production
system and has been tested only with the configuration described below.
Hardware for Proof of Concept
Table 2-4
Function
Sentinel Server + Database (Oracle)
Collector Manager, Correlation Engine,
and Sentinel Control Center
RAM
5 GB, Software RAID 5
with 5 SATA hard drives
4 GB RAM
21. Sentinel is
Model
SLES 10 SP1, two 64-bit dual core
processors (tested with two Intel
Xeon 5160s, 3.00 GHz)
Windows 2003 SP2, two 32-bit
single-core processors (tested with
Intel Xeon, 2.4 GHz)
System Requirements 23