Hi Rob
I like this idea.
We currently have 10 Campus Networks with each separated into about 10 - 20 sites. There is another bunch of smaller remote sites also.
I work for a mining company and a lot of our systems is separated with Private VLAN's from the Enterprise network to protect systems that could cause potential harm to people and production loss to the company.
This however makes it very difficult to monitor without fancy IPSEC tunnels etc which we do not want to do anyways, we had a look at APE's but deploying 100x APE does not make financial sense if you do not monitor 10 000 elements per instance. If a remote smaller server could be deployed that caters for 100-500 elements it would be great as the remote server could be connected to the Private VLAN's for monitoring purposes. This would also assist greatly with more accurate availability statistics.
