Supervisor with Collectors Deployment for Enterprises
There are two cases where a single Supervisor may not be enough for your deployment.
There are monitored devices behind a firewall that will not allow monitoring protocols like Windows Management Instrumention (WMI) to be used from the Supervisor
The Supervisor can only reach the monitored devices through a high latency network like a Wide Area Network (WAN), in which case monitoring like protocols like Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) or WMI do not work well
In these cases you can deploy Collectors to monitor the devices, and they will communicate to the Supervisor over HTTP(S). The Collectors communicate with the devices, collect and parse events and logs, compress them, and then send them to the Supervisor for monitoring and analysis. Collectors also can buffer the events, in case transmission to the Supervisor is interrupted. As shown in the diagrams, you can use Collectors in a deployment with a single Supervisor, or in a deployment that also includes Workers.
An AccelOps deployment with a single Supervisor and Collectors
An AccelOps deployment using a Single Supervisor + 2 Workers + 2 Collectors
Matrix of Enterprise Deployment Configuration Options
This matrix shows the components required for each enterprise deployment option.
| Deployment Option | Supervisor
Node |
Worker
Node |
Collector
Node |
NFS
Server |
Report
Server |
Visual
Analytics Server |
Description |
| Single Supervisor Node | x | This is the most basic single site enterprise deployment. | |||||
| Supervisor Node with
Collectors |
x | x | This is also an enterprise deployment covering multiple sites. Data collection is simplified by deploying a collector for the satellite sites. | ||||
| Enterprise Cluster | x | x | x | This is the scalable enterprise deployment. An NFS Server is required in the data sharing architecture between Supervisor and Worker nodes. | |||
| Enterprise Cluster with
Collectors |
x | x | x | x | This deployment adds collectors to the mix and is the most comprehensive enterprise deployment. | ||
| Supervisor Node with
Tableau Visual Analytics |
x | x | x | This is the most basic single node enterprise deployment, with added capability for Visual Analytics with Tableau | |||
| Supervisor Node with
Collectors and Tableau Visual Analytics |
x | x | x | x | This is also an enterprise deployment covering multiple sites with added capability for Visual Analytics with Tableau. Data collection is simplified by deploying a collector for the satellite sites. | ||
| Enterprise Cluster with Ta bleau Visual Analytics | x | x | x | x | x | This is the scalable enterprise deployment with added capability for with added capability for Visual Analytics with Tableau. An NFS Server is required in the data sharing architecture between Supervisor and Worker nodes. | |
| Enterprise Cluster with
Collectors and Tableau Visual Analytics |
x | x | x | x | x | x | This deployment adds collectors to the mix and is the most
comprehensive enterprise deployment, with added capability for Visual Analytics with Tableau. |
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