Re: Bandwidth used by 10g R2 Grid Manager

pete_usenet_at_yahoo.com wrote:
> Hi -
>
> We are interested in implementing grid manager on a single CPU system
> to manage 20 - 30 DBs sometime during the next few months. For reasons
> not related to grid management we want to station this small server a
> few miles away from our DB servers at one of our other locations.
>
> The connectivity to this other location is via a 1 Gbit network
> connection (actually 10 100 Mbit links). There will be plenty of other
> traffic on that link.
>
> The question is how much network traffic will the new grid manager
> system load up the network with?

Probably not enough to notice. But as with anything ... it depends.

> The PDF located here http://download.oracle.com/oowsf2004/1243.pdf
> shows the minimum suggested connectivity between the DB servers and the
> management repository is a 1 Gbit link. Our management repository and
> our management server would be on the same modestly sized server. I
> believe that the PDF came from an Oracle Open World 2004 presentation.
>
> Q1 - Will we experience any problems locating the OEM grid control
> server remotely?

Without knowing anything about the other traffic I'd not want to render an opinion but the Grid Control does not seem to use a lot of bandwidth.

> Q2 - Will the network traffic between the DB servers and the remote
> grid manager server be more than a small portion of our 1 Gbit link?
>
> Thanks,
> Pete

Most likely no.

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