Figure 10.19 Example of a Scalable and Common Distributed Installation
SOME INDEPENDENT ADVICE
Special attention always should be paid to licensing when deploying any
software product. In the case of Xian Network Manager, there are many
moving pieces, all individually licensed. To make sure that you under-
stand the cost implications of your design, let’s consider a sample
deployment of Xian NMS that will manage 150 Linux servers, 50 Solaris
servers, 100 Cisco switches, routers, and firewalls, and 10 F5 Big IP Layer
7 switches.
In this example, we have determined that we can share the same
SQL Server 2000 installation that hosts our MOM 2005 databases. ...