Medium Enterprise Design

The second design point is for a medium enterprise consisting of the following:

• 500 servers

• 11 locations, including a main office and 10 branch offices

• A shared 11Mbps fractional T3 from the main office to the branch offices

• Approximately 25% bandwidth availability

For illustration and sizing, the numbers and types of servers at each location are listed in Table 6.11. Because the types of servers determine which management packs are loaded and determine database sizing, it is important to have some sense of the monitored servers.

Table 6.11 Medium Enterprise Server Counts

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Given the number of managed computers, ...

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