Requisiti hardware

The hardware requirements for SKOOR Engine and Collector depend on several factors. The most important are:

  • Number of measurements per second

  • Number of Dashboards and Widgets: more CPU cores allow more parallel read requests

Disk size requirements mainly depend on how much data will be saved to the database. Key factors are the number of history values and history states which have to be saved. It also depends on the period for which the data should be available before it expires. Expired data will be deleted. Measurement values are stored for one year per default (adjustable).

It is advisable to discuss requirements directly with SKOOR.

Nevertheless, here are some recommendations:

Common

CPU

Intel Xeon or AMD64, 64bit architecture is required. i386 and IA64 architecture is NOT supported.

At least 4 CPU cores must be present. The SKOOR Engine will not start otherwise. If running the SKOOR engine inside a virtual machine, make sure to assign the virtual CPUs on the same CPU socket (i.e. do not spread CPUs across multiple sockets)

Network

Gigabit interface

SKOOR Engine

Memory

6 GB minimum, 8 GB for use with dashboards

Disk

At least 1 disk. For better performance it is advisable to split the database filesystems for indexes and tablespaces.

An advanced setup might be:

  • 300 GB                 for operating system, /opt, /srv and /var filesystems

  • 200 GB                 for database index filesystem

  • 200 GB                 for database tablespace filesystem

Standalone SKOOR Collector

Memory

2 GB

Disk

1 disk is sufficient. Disk I/O is usually lower compared to the server

SKOOR Engine for SNAP/SNBI

As a rule of thumb, the SKOOR system for SNAP/SNBI should be half the size of the StableNet system it is integrated with.

CPU

16 cores

Memory

64 GB

Disk

1 TB

Disk Partitioning SKOOR Server

Directory

Space required

Comment

/opt/eranger

100 GB

  • SKOOR Engine/Collector software

  • Collector ringbuffer file, will use 1.5GB in default configuration

  • SKOOR Engine backup files

Compressed DB backups are stored in /opt/eranger/server/backups by default. Additionally, /opt/eranger/tmp is used as temporary space for creating full database backups. If this is left unchanged then /opt/eranger needs to be at least as large as the database volume.

/srv/eranger

20 GB

  • Webserver root

  • EEM logs (optional, depends strongly on size of EEM data history)

/var/log/eranger

5 GB

  • SKOOR logfiles

More space needed if logfiles are kept longer than defined in default settings

/var/opt/run/eranger

20 GB

  • PID- and core-files

  • HOME-DIR of user eranger

  • Temporary measurement data

/var/lib/pgsql/

100 GB

  • Database files

While 50 GB might be sufficient for a small system (used primarily for dashboards), medium to large systems will need at least 100 GB.

Mounting the following two directories to separate disks or volumes can improve performance by up to 3 times:

/var/lib/pgsql/data/ng_tblspc/idx_space/
/var/lib/pgsql/data/ng_tblspc/tab_space/

These two directories make up most of the space taken up by the database tables and are usually about the same size, so each can be assigned half the space reserved for the database

Disk Partitioning Standalone SKOOR Collector

Directory

Space required

Comment

/opt/eranger

20 GB

  • SKOOR Engine/Collector software

  • Collector ringbuffer file, will use 1.5GB in default configuration

/var/log/eranger

1 GB

  • SKOOR logfiles

More space needed if logfiles are kept longer than defined in default settings

/var/opt/run/eranger

20 GB

  • PID- and core-files

  • HOME-DIR of user eranger

  • Temporary measurement data

Disk Partitioning SKOOR Server for StableNet SNAP / SNBI

Directory

Space required

Comment

/opt/eranger

50 GB

See above. Due to the fact that SNBI/SNAP systems do not use SKOOR measurements, backups of the SKOOR database will be small

/srv/eranger

-

Very little data expected on this filesystem

/var/log/eranger

5 GB

See above

/var/opt/run/eranger

20 GB

See above

/var/lib/pgsql/

1 TB

Due to the fact that a big amount of data is expected in the StableNet related database, consider a suitable backup strategy:

  • If all required data can be reloaded from StableNet after a data loss, no backup might be necessary

  • If backups are required, extra disk space might be necessary