As specified in the DataMiner System Requirements documentation, the recommended number of users within a DMS are:
- Online Users: 100
- Configured Users: 1000
The basic questions we have are:
- How flexible are the above numbers? Is there any buffer around these?
- When a large active directory (or any other domain system) is synchronized with DataMiner, what puts a limitation to how many users are configured?
- What are the symptoms expected once more than 100 users are online or more than 1000 are configured? Does DataMiner trigger an event?
- Is there any room for enhancing the number of online and configured users at the core level? Would it be possible to take these numbers to another level of scalability (i.e. Configured: 5000 | Online: 200)
Thank you in advance,
Hi Rene,
I can't really fully judge on all aspects of your question, so other people can maybe provide further insights on this matter.
But the nbr of Online Users is very likely to be quite flexible. In fact, the actual limits are more likely to be defined by the effective degree of load induced by those users, rather than the absolute number of users online in the system.
A user who is simply connected to DataMiner, and using it to monitor the operation, will hardly cause any load. On the other hand, a user who continuously performs for example large queries, e.g. loading alarm history, will cause more load.
Therefore, I would say that you do not have to be too fixated on that nbr, unless all users would be users that continuously cause a heavy load on the system.
Aside from that, I'm not aware of any important underlying constraints that would prevent a high number of people being connected simultaneously.