Installation guide

Installation Configurations Server Requirements • 1
1Server
Requirements
There are several things that can effect how well the
Site Manager software will run in a given environment.
Each of these is slightly different but can be considered a
comparable load on the system.
1. Number of users: The number of users in general --
but especially the number of simultaneous users --
can put a taxing load on the web server to service re-
quests both to controllers as well as reading data
from the database.
2. Number of sites: The number of sites that the sys-
tem can communicate with -- especially simultane-
ous connections.
3. Functions performed on sites: There is quite a dif-
ferent load on the system between an occasional log
retrieval, backup, or graphical screen versus pulling
every log out of each controller at a site daily.
1.1. Installation
Configurations
The configuration for installing the Site Manager soft-
ware is multiple server configuration.
1.1.1. Multiple-Server Machine
Configuration
This installation configuration has the Site Manager
Web application server and the database on two separate
machines. This frees up the UI and protocol from having
resources taken by the database server. This can be espe-
cially crucial during intensive operations (such as log re-
trieval, which has to update the UI, pull logs from
controllers and place those logs in the database).
NOTE: Refer to Appendix C: Supported
Product Versions for supported product ver-
sions.
Figure 1-1 - Multiple-Server Machine Configuration