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I am considering this to be the "Selecting Appliance Type document".

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I am considering this to be the "Selecting Appliance Type document".

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I am considering this to be the "Selecting Appliance Type document".

Virsae Associates, business partners and customers need some sort of guidance when it comes to choosing the most suitable appliance Virsae Business Partners and Customers must choose which type of VSM Collector best fits their needs. The most suitable collector to deploy for a given environment . This choice comes down to a blend of the ITIL features selected, will depend on customer preferences and the scale of the deploymentenvironment to be monitored.

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Type of Collector

There are four types of collectors currently available:

  1. RaspberryPi
  2. Windows Software Client
  3. Linux Virtual Machines
  4. Virtual (Virsae Cloud)

Features

The software, hardware, and Raspberry Windows Software Client, Linux Virtual Machines, and Raspberry Pi Collectors all support all ITIL the same VSM features.

The difference that each Collector type provides comes from the scale of operation that they support.

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For a Raspberry Pi Collector they the typical demography of a customer should be:

  1. Less than 200 BHCC; and
  2. Less than 1,000 IP station users; and
  3. Five, or fewer, call server platforms; and
  4. Less than 20 servers or generic devices.

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Tip

Typical deployment is for SMB. Examples include Avaya IP Office, Nortel CS1K, Mitel, Linux Servers, Generic Devices.

Windows Software Client and

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Linux Virtual Machine

For these Collector types, the typical demography of a customer would should be close to this:

  1. Less than 30,000 BHCC; and
  2. Less than 30,000 IP station users; and
  3. Less than 10,000 contact centre users; and
  4. Five, or fewer, call server platforms; and
  5. Less than 100 servers or generic devices.


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This is AND, not OR. The greatest influence runs from 1 through 5. For example, it is possible to have more than five call servers, provided the total BHCC remains less than 30,000.

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Tip

Typical deployment is enterprise. Examples include Skype for Business, Avaya Communication Manager and Adjuncts, Cisco Call Manager, Nortel CS1K, Mitel, Skype for Business, Windows and Linux Servers, generic devices.

Machine Proxy Agent (MPA)

The MPA should be installed on all Windows servers under management.

The MPA monitors Windows resources, collects events and monitors the state of services.

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Requirements

The requirements for each collector type is listed in each of their own configuration sections:

Windows Software Client

Linux Virtual Machines

Raspberry Pi

System Images

All system images that contain the VSM Collector software can be found under Service Desk> Files and Folders> Shared with me> Virsae> VSM> VSM Software.

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