Chapter 2 Deployment Planning
Scalable Deployments
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Factors in Network Sizing
You can use the following data points for computing product network usage. The
following numbers average tasks based on the upper limit of a 100,000 agent
deployment.
Agent and Configuration Statistics
• Number of agents: 100,000
• Polling interval: 24 hours
• Event retention: 60 days
• Event updates: 3 per agent per day
Task Size Statistics
• Hint message: 1 Kb
• Poll size: 2 Kb
• Event update size: 2.5 Kb
• Policy update size: 35 Kb
• Agent update size: 9,000 Kb
• Agent update (with CTA): 16,000 Kb
• Tracker (Product only): 100 Kb
• Tracker (Product and non-verbose network): 2,000 Kb
• Tracker (Product and verbose network): 8,000 Kb
Tracker Agent Installation Statistics
• Number of agents in Tracker (Product only) group: 1,000
• Number of agents in Tracker (Product and non-verbose network) group: 100
• Number of agents in Tracker (Product and verbose network) group: 10
Bandwidth Statistics
• Downstream from CSA MC: 1333.33 Kb/sec, continuous
• Upstream to CSA MC: 3600 Kb/sec, continuous
• Policy update (downstream): 5833.33 Kb/sec, during update timeframe
• Agent update (downstream): 2666666.67 Kb/sec, during update timeframe
