Supervisor with Collectors Deployment for Enterprises

There are two cases where a single Supervisor may not be enough for your deployment.

There are monitored devices behind a firewall that will not allow monitoring protocols like Windows Management Instrumention (WMI) to be used from the Supervisor

The Supervisor can only reach the monitored devices through a high latency network like a Wide Area Network (WAN), in which case monitoring like protocols like Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) or WMI do not work well

In these cases you can deploy Collectors to monitor the devices, and they will communicate to the Supervisor over HTTP(S). The Collectors communicate with the devices, collect and parse events and logs, compress them, and then send them to the Supervisor for monitoring and analysis. Collectors also can buffer the events, in case transmission to the Supervisor is interrupted. As shown in the diagrams, you can use Collectors in a deployment with a single Supervisor, or in a deployment that also includes Workers.

An AccelOps deployment with a single Supervisor and Collectors

An AccelOps deployment using a Single Supervisor + 2 Workers + 2 Collectors

Matrix of Enterprise Deployment Configuration Options

This matrix shows the components required for each enterprise deployment option.