{bb} BB hardware

[John Horne <J.Horne@plymouth.ac.uk>]

Hello,

I've currently got BB (1.3a) running on a linux redhat 6.1 PC (pentium 75,
1GB disk, 80Mb memory). However, the system tends to get overloaded if we
run Netscape (version 4.7) on it directly. The idea was to have the system
performing the BB processing and to display it via Netscape so that
admin/ops could 'glance' at it to get the general colour/status. Then, if
not green, they'd look more closely using their own PC's and just pointing
Netscape/IE to the system. The problem seems to be made worse by a flakey
network, since then the system loses contact with several of the systems
being monitored, and Netscape throws up an error saying its lost contact with
the network. Admittedly this seems to happen during the night, but by the
morning BB has started to report purple for everything! Great fun.

Anyway, the question was simply what hardware do others run BB on? Do I need
something with more clout than the P75? It is monitoring about 70 systems -
some for everything (smtp,ftp,ntp,dns,conn,msgs,backups,etc,etc), others,
like some of the Novell servers, are just monitoring ipx connectivity.

Thanks,

John.

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