If you are not sure what is needed or you don’t have the skills in your company to set it up, contact us and one of our engineers can help and advise you.

Requirements for the Docker images

• An operating system with the latest version of Docker and Docker Compose
• GIT is optional but could be useful to download the configuration files
• An engineer with some server & docker experience
• Detailed installation manual can be found here

Requirements for the Virtual Machine (OVA)

• A Hypervisor like Virtualbox, VMware workstation or ESXi
• An engineer to manage the Hypervisor
• Our getting started documentation, located here.

Hardware requirements

Slurp’it uses a Microservice architecture where it’s easy to offload services to another server.
But when you run everything on the same server the following is required:

Minimum Configuration:

• CPU Cores: 8
• RAM: 16GB
• Storage: 250GB SSD

Scalable up to 1000 devices with daily scheduled jobs.
Too many hourly scheduled jobs could lead to performance issues.

Recommended Configuration:

• CPU Cores: 16
• Workers: 1
• RAM: 32GB or higher, allowing for larger working sets and improved performance
• Storage: 500GB SSD

Scalable up to 3000 devices with daily scheduled jobs and hourly scheduled jobs.
Run a full discovery first. For faster network discovery, upgrade to a system with more CPU cores

Enterprise Recommendation:

• CPU: Cores 32
• RAM: 64GB or higher for larger datasets and indexing operations
• Storage:
  • 1000GB
  • High-performance SSDs in RAID configuration, separated for data and journaling
  • Consider SAN or NAS solutions for scalability and reliability
• Workers:
  • Seperate On-demand worker for Web-UI tasks (SNMP tester, Template tester, Reachability tester)
  • Seperate Profiler (So monitor and analyse your network and increase the discovery performance)
  • Seperater Scanner/Scraper per 3000 devices.

Scalable up to unlimited amount of devices with daily scheduled jobs and hourly scheduled jobs.
Enterprise license has the option to horizontal scale your network discovery with endless possibilities.
Every Worker should have the Enterprise CPU & Memory requirements.

Benchmark tool

Want to verify if your system is ready to run Slurp’it and for which configuration your hardware is capable of running, then run our benchmark tool to make sure you won’t encounter any performance issues:

1. Open the terminal of your Slurp’it server
2. Make sure your system has an internet connection
3. Run the following command:

docker run --pull always --rm slurpit/benchmark:latest

Service Manager

The Service Manager is a Centralized solution to easily manage multiple Slurp’it instances.
Therefor the requirements are not heavy since it’s a Proxy toward the existing instances.

• CPU Cores: 2
• RAM: 4GB
• Storage: 50GB SSD