ComTel Server Monitor has been designed to use as few system resources as possible. The goal is to not affect the server it is running on, and also not to affect any monitored servers.

Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows 2003

20 - 50 MB of free physical RAM for the monitoring process

The amount of RAM needed will go up and down during the monitoring cycles. Every few minutes the monitoring service flushes unneeded memory to keep the process size small. RAM usage will increase when running certain data intensive reports, or if running a monitor that uses a large amount of data from the database. However, these increases will be temporary.

10 - 100 MB of disk space

The amount of required disk space varies widely based on the amount of data to store in the database. The program files are roughly 10 MB, and report files are roughly 5 MB. A 'typical' installation (where the default monitors are used on a single computer) would use roughly 5 MB for the database files.

You configure the target CPU usage.

The Settings dialog lets you specify a target CPU Usage %. In general the monitoring service will attempt to keep CPU usage at or below that level. Occasionally, when flushing data to the database or when running large reports, the CPU Usage can spike higher, but that will be temporary and should not have an impact on the system.

In addition, certain long-running monitors will use low-priority threads so they will only use unneeded CPU cycles, and get pushed to the background immediately if 'real' work needs to be done by the system.

The recommended hardware configurations for your version of Windows will be sufficient for ComTel Server Monitor.