This technical white paper gives an overview of how GFI EventsManager works and discusses installation and deployment issues whilst enabling you to calculate the number of GFI EventsManager instances required on your network.
Contents
Introduction 3 Document scope ............................................................................................................3 Document limitations......................................................................................................3 Intended audience..........................................................................................................3 How this guide is structured...........................................................................................3 How to use this guide.....................................................................................................4 Knowledge Base ............................................................................................................5
Introducing GFI EventsManager 6 About GFI EventsManager ............................................................................................6 Key features...................................................................................................................7 How does GFI EventsManager work? ...........................................................................9
Deployment considerations 11 Introduction ..................................................................................................................11 Deployment Objectives ................................................................................................11 Upgrading from a previous version..............................................................................12 Minimum System Requirements..................................................................................12 System requirements for Event Sources .....................................................................12 Deployment machine ...................................................................................................13 Ports and protocols used by GFI EventsManager.......................................................13 Firewalls and anti-virus software..................................................................................14 Computer identification considerations........................................................................14 Databases used by GFI EventsManager.....................................................................14 Database Maintenance ................................................................................................15 Database availability ....................................................................................................15 Alerting .........................................................................................................................16 Multiple domain, multiple site environments ................................................................16 GFI EventsManager WAN Connector..........................................................................17 Non-trusted domains....................................................................................................17 Bandwidth considerations ............................................................................................17 Pricing and licensing ....................................................................................................18
Performance and sizing 19 Introduction ..................................................................................................................19 Benchmark test results ................................................................................................19 Bandwidth utilization ................................................ [download for more]
