A.05.70 HP Insight Remote Support Advanced Release Notes (June 2012, 5900- 2129)

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Maximum number of monitored and managed devices per CMS
Monitoring services only
The recommended device limits for acceptable HP Systems Insight Manager (HP SIM) and Insight Remote
Support Advanced performance for an individual CMS is 3,250 SNMP/WBEM monitored end-point
devices, plus 100 ELMC devices plus 25 Command View for EVA devices.
A CMS that is monitoring more than this number can be expected to suffer a level of performance
degradation that will be proportional to the amount by which the preceding guidelines are exceeded.
CMS performance degradation may also be experienced if the total number of end-point devices
discovered by HP SIM and hence sending events to the CMS is greater than the device limits listed above,
even if they are disabled in HP Insight Remote Support Advanced for monitoring. This is due to the CMS
still having to process the events coming from disabled devices.
IMPORTANT: The recommended device limits above are only applicable when Insight Remote
Support Advanced A.05.60 or higher is installed.
NOTE: Device discovery time is proportional to the number of monitored devices. Discovering the
maximum number of devices listed above will take approximately 4 hours.
Proactive services
The recommended limit for device configurations collections is 2,000 per month per Central Management
Server (CMS). Once these monthly collections surpass the 2,000 level, performance of the CMS will
degrade, eventually resulting in missed collections. To make sure that you do not suffer from performance
degradation, the following information should be used to calculate that this level is not exceeded:
1. An HP-UX server triggers 1collection per month by default unless it is for proactive services with an
Advanced Configuration Collector installed
a) Proactive services for HP-UX servers uses an additional 8 collections per month using weekly
Configuration and Availability collections
Note, customization to a ‘daily schedule’ will increase collections accordingly
b) Performance Collections are assumed manual & infrequent
2. Each Windows and Linux server defaults to 1 collection per month
3. Each EVA or EVA-LE device defaults to 1 collection per week
4. Note, all other storage devices do not trigger a collection unless part of a SAN collection
5. Any device type listed above added to a SAN adds 4 more collections per month using weekly SAN
collections for each SAN to which the device is assigned
6. Each P4000 Storage System defaults to 4 collections per day per device
7. Each HP E-Series networking switch (formerly known as HP ProCurve) defaults to 1 collection per
week
NOTE: These guidelines are calculated based on using the following component version: HP SIM
6.2 (or higher), HP Insight Remote Support Advanced A.05.60 (or higher) and WEBES v6.2 (or
higher).
NOTE: The HP Insight Remote Support Advanced software does not currently support WBEM
indications authorization using certificates, only user account and password verification.
Certificate support will be added in a subsequent release.