How many devices can a single Bottleneck Analysis tool poll?
There is not a set amount of devices. The Database size increases with the addition of each monitored element. So it depends on the number of elements or performance metrics the Bottleneck Analysis tool is monitoring and the amount of traffic on the network, monitoring more than 2,000 elements/performance metrics can require additional polling engines (i.e., additional Toolboxes with the Bottleneck Analysis tool). Here is some information on what constitutes an element/performance metric. Nodes Nodes include entire devices, for example, routers, switches, virtual and physical servers, access points, and modems. Interfaces Interfaces include switch ports, physical interfaces, virtual interfaces, sub-interfaces, VLANs, and any other single point of network traffic. Volumes Volumes are equivalent to the physical or logical disks you are monitoring.
