Newbie Sentinel Installation & Deployment Questions

[miguel_rodriguez]

I'm tryng to established the infraestructure necesary to run sentinel.

The documentation is fussy and as newbie as I am. I don't understand the different parts that works for sentinel. I need to know what to install in every single server and how many servers I need.

I'm reading the documentation, but i don't get the big picture, because I found documentation of the Sentinel Log Manager.

So I have to install the database(Store Meta data and summarized data?), the collector(inserst raw data to the database?) the Sentinel log manager (is good to use if you have several sites and wants to filter and compress information? is something like a collector storage, with the capabilities of filter compress and storage, but what database use? the sentinel original database or an new instance of oracle or new instance of sql) as far as I know the Sentinel log manager is installed on Linux only. So?

As you can see I'm very confused about the componentes, the functionality, the OS supported and where I have to install every single component. For better performance and the most cost effective.

So any help would be appreciated.

thanks in advanced Mike