How to install multiple robots on one single host

Products

• DX Unified Infrastructure Management (Nimsoft / UIM)

Issue/Introduction

It is sometimes necessary to run more than one copy of the same probe on a server. One example of this is when you need to monitor 7000 network devices from a single server. The snmpget probe can only run approximately 2500 profiles in a single instance of the probe; this seems to be a network stack limitation. However, CPU and Memory on a normal server is able to cope with 3 or 4 times this volume of traffic.

I need to install multiple UIM robots in one single host, is this supported and how do I do it?

Environment

UIM 20.x or later

Resolution

This is a supported configuration:

• It is possible to install 2 or more robots in one single Windows or Linux system. See How --> Install Multiple Robots on a Single Host (broadcom.com)
• The robots can use the same IP address but must use different port ranges.
• The multiple robots installed on one single system don't know about each other, therefore, they can run different versions of the robot and can point to different UIM domains.

Additional Information

Install Multiple Robots on a Single Host (broadcom.com)