Device count

[almodovaris]

And, yes, I have found something: same computer, four operating systems, is shown as three devices:

Windows 10 computer name 1
Windows 10 computer name 2
Arch Linux and Windows PE boot stick (two operating systems seen as one device).

[JasonJoel]

I'm still struggling to see how I'm going to use Sensei in my home network environment with the 100 device limit.

I have ~80 IoT devices on their own VLAN. Some of these devices I DO want to protect, some I don't. Without the ability to exclude some assets in that VLAN from monitoring, I can't monitor anything on that VLAN without going over on device count.

I have ~9 more months on my subscription, but without either a higher device limit or a way to control what gets monitored/vs not monitored in Sensei I doubt I'll be renewing as I simply am not getting the full benefit out of it.

[andrwhmmr]

I'm still struggling to see how I'm going to use Sensei in my home network environment with the 100 device limit.
....

I second that. 100 Devices is laughably low considering even fridges have IP Adresses now...
And worst of all is the documentation just says "you may experience some performance loss..." what? can you please be a little more specific?

I am really confused.

[JasonJoel]

It kind of doesn't matter to me any more. Unless they give us the ability to make more profiles, I couldn't actually do anything useful with more devices in Sensei anyway.

Them being in there is great.... But if I can't make the right policies to do something with them, it is a bit meaningless to me.

[andrwhmmr]

After a bit more digging, I guess it has to do with the backend mongodb or elastic database.
This is what they mean with performance loss, I guess this will be the limiting factor...
So I will give it a shot  :D

[fabianodelg]

Hi,

give it a shot. If you can, use an elasticsearch instance separated from your firewall; if not, and depending on the spec of your FW, use a local MongoDB instance -maybe with the cache optimization I was suggesting in this forum-.

It is defintely worth it, the amount of Intel you will get from Sensei (and the clarity) is beyond anything you can imagine.

Best wishes

[hushcoden]

If you can, use an elasticsearch instance separated from your firewall;

I noticed there is an Elasticsearch plugin provided by mimugmail: would this work with Sensei ?

Tia.

[fabianodelg]

Hi, there's no need of any plugin: if you have an elasticsearch instance available, Sensei will give you (during the installation process) to use that instead of MongoDB.

Hope this help...

Best wishes!