Table of Contents 1 Introduction 1.1 Document Scope 1.2 Document Limitations 1.3 Intended Audience 1.4 How this guide is structured 1.5 Knowledge Base 2 Introducing GFI EventsManager 2.1 About GFI EventsManager 2.2 How does GFI EventsManager work? Stage 1: Event Collection Stage 2: Event Processing 3 Deployment Considerations 3.1 Introduction 3.2 Deployment Objectives 3.3 Upgrading from previous versions 3.4 Minimum System Requirements 3.4.1 Hardware requirements 3.4.2 Software requirements Supported Operating Systems (x86 or x64) Other components Event sources 3.4.3 Ports and permissions Ports used by GFI EventsManager Firewall permissions Microsoft Windows Vista and Microsoft Windows 7 3.5 Firewalls and Anti-virus software 3.6 Computer identification considerations 3.7 Database and Files backend 3.7.1 Database backend 3.7.2 Files and storage folder 3.8 Database Maintenance 3.9 Database availability 3.10 Alerting 3.11 Multiple domain, multiple site environments 3.12 Bandwidth considerations 3.13 Licensing 4 Performance and Sizing 4.1 Introduction 4.2 Benchmark test results 4.3 Bandwidth utilization 4.4 Steps required for determining the deployment solution Further information to help in the evaluation Issues to consider 4.5 Recommendations 5 Deploying GFI EventsManager on a Single Domain LAN 5.1 Introduction Scenario 1: Small single domain network with default Audit Policy enabled Scenario 2: Large single domain network 5.2 Deployment Phases 6 Deploying GFI EventsManager on a Multiple Domain WAN 6.1 Introduction 6.2 Deployment Scenario Description Calculation of number of events per hour 6.3 Deployment Phases Deployment Phases for Sites 1 and 2 Deployment Phases for Site 3 7 Deploying GFI EventsManager in a Mixed Environment 7.1 Introduction 7.2 Deployment Scenario Description Calculating the number of events generated GFI EventsManager instances required 7.3 Deployment Phases 8 Deploying GFI EventsManager on Demilitarized Zone 8.1 Introduction Automate management of Web and Mail server events Automate management of DNS server events Automate management of network appliance events 8.2 Where to deploy GFI EventsManager 8.2.1 Introduction 8.2.2 Scenario 1 8.2.3 Scenarios 2 and 3 8.2.4 Scenario 4 8.3 Deployment scenario description 8.3.1 Calculating the number of events generated 8.4 Deployment Phases 9 Deploying GFI EventsManager ReportPack 9.1 Introduction 9.2 About the GFI EventsManager ReportPack 9.3 GFI EventsManager ReportPack management console 9.4 Deployment Phases 9.5 Deployment scenario Recommendation Reports via email 10 Appendix 1: Instance Calculator 10.1 Introduction 11 Appendix 2: SQL Server Best Practices 11.1 Introduction Monitoring and Tuning for Performance SQL Server best practices analyzer Additional resources 12 Appendix 3: Checklist 12.1 Introduction
