ScienceLogic Global Network Manager
ScienceLogic 7.5 includes many enhancements and new features. One I’m interested in is “Global Manager” which can be used to massively scale out the ScienceLogic architecture. Here’s some more detail on why ScienceLogic introduced this feature, and what it does.
Problem: A Single Database
I’ve talked before about the ScienceLogic architecture, and noted that the Database can be a bottleneck:
You’ll notice that all the variations only ever have one “active” database at any one time. All the processing is done on this system, with the results replicated to the other databases. You can scale out your Collectors or User Interface by adding more servers – but you can’t scale out the core database. Right now you have to scale up the database – ie. allocate more RAM/CPU/IOPS. This gets around the performance bottlenecks, but comes at a cost.
In this diagram, we can see the database is at the heart of everything. We can have HA & DR options for it, but there is only ever one active DB:
We can have multiple web interfaces, but they all query the same database.
Solution: More Databases!
The new Global Manager option from Continue reading