Actually, depending on the amount of floating point work required, the UltraSPARC T1 may perform slower. They smoke on integer performance, but on floating point, they're noticeably slower than a comparable non-SPARC.
As far as I am aware, even BES has to talk to RIM's servers in order to identify the PIN of the handheld and route the message accordingly. You have to define an SRP (Server Rely Protocol) address in your BES configuration, which, in every configuration I have seen, is *.blackberry.net:
#whois blackberry.net
Registrant:
Research In Motion
Research In Motion
180 Columbia St. West .
Waterloo, ON N2L3L3
CA
Email: dnsadmin@rim.net
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I've played around with Zenoss, and I can tell you that it isn't a good enough NMS to replace http://www.opennms.org/ OpenNMS, and doesn't graph well enough to replace http://www.cacti.net/ Cacti.
To be quite honest, we do all of that via OpenNMS. We also make use of it's paging system to alert techs and/or management when there is a fault - data center temp over/under threshold, server down, UPS fault, UPS on battery, etc. Your monitoring hardware has to be SNMP enabled (add on cards, etc.) but if you can poll it via SNMP, OpenNMS can monitor it.
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Actually, depending on the amount of floating point work required, the UltraSPARC T1 may perform slower. They smoke on integer performance, but on floating point, they're noticeably slower than a comparable non-SPARC.
As far as I am aware, even BES has to talk to RIM's servers in order to identify the PIN of the handheld and route the message accordingly. You have to define an SRP (Server Rely Protocol) address in your BES configuration, which, in every configuration I have seen, is *.blackberry.net: #whois blackberry.net Registrant: Research In Motion Research In Motion 180 Columbia St. West . Waterloo, ON N2L3L3 CA Email: dnsadmin@rim.net
Offtopic: I've played around with Zenoss, and I can tell you that it isn't a good enough NMS to replace http://www.opennms.org/ OpenNMS, and doesn't graph well enough to replace http://www.cacti.net/ Cacti.
To be quite honest, we do all of that via OpenNMS. We also make use of it's paging system to alert techs and/or management when there is a fault - data center temp over/under threshold, server down, UPS fault, UPS on battery, etc. Your monitoring hardware has to be SNMP enabled (add on cards, etc.) but if you can poll it via SNMP, OpenNMS can monitor it.
Oh, I see what you did there...