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Requirements for Nagios servers (to use with the SLA widget)
1. Nagios Server
2. MySQL server (for the NDO Utils database)

1. Requirements for Nagios servers (to use with the SLA widget)

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	Before we can do that, we are collecting here some facts from our customers.

1.1. Nagios Server

1.1.1. Platform

<QUESTION POSED TO CHUV and TCS>

1.2. MySQL server (for the NDO Utils database)

1.2.1. Platform

This is known to work:

CHUV: Virtual machine (nms5val) on a VMWare ESX server
- Host:
  - 4 CPU Xeon 2.66 GHz
  - 2 disks in RAID-1
- VM:
  - 2GB RAM
  - # of CPUS ? <QUESTION POSED TO CHUV>
  - disk ? <QUESTION POSED TO CHUV>

1.2.2. Optimizations

Trimming of the Nagios event tables:

They are not used by the NEXTHink SLA and Nagios widgets
Assumptions: they a not used by other systems
Operations to trim them:
```
TO-BE-FILLED
```

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