Specifications

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OptimisationActionsOverview
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McAfeegenerallyrecommendsthefollowingactions(mostofwhicharedescribedinmoredetaillater):
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•OptimizeharddisksforI/Operformance.Asabove,15KRPMdisksarethebest.Thedisksshouldbeina
RAID5arraywithacontroller,withthemaximumamountofcacheavailable.UPSba
ckupis
recommended.Seechaptersabove.
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•UseDASratherthananetworklocationSAN/NAS.Seechaptersabove.
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•EnableindexingoftheObjectDirectorywithdbcfg.ini.
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•Keepnumberofobjectspergrouptoaminimumwithintheobjectdirectoryandminimizenumberof
usersassignedtoclients.Als
olessaggressivesyncpolicyforclientscaneaseserverload.
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•ReducetheTCP/IPKeepAliveTimetofiveminutes.
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•DisableNTFSLastAccessUpdatewitharegistrychange.
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•IncreasethesizeoftheNTFSMasterFileTable(MFT)witharegistrychange.
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•Optimizebackups.
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•Exclu
detheObjectDirectoryandtheassociatedservicesfromvirusscans.
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•SetWindowsserverperformancessettingstobackgroundservicesandsystemcache.
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•ManageAudits.
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•UseHardDrivecontrollercaching.
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•UsegoodnetworkconnectionstoObjectDirectoryservers.
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•StoretheObjectDirectory(usuallystoredinSB
DATAfolder)onaseparatedriveorpartitiontotheOS.
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•Don’tallowthedatabasetobeshared.
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•CheckthateveryadministratorgoesthroughtheEEPCDatabaseserver,notdirectthroughlocal
connection.
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•Limittheuseofthe‘Find’functionin20K+databasesduringnormalworkinghoursasitca
nslowaccess.
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•Clearobjectitemsfromdeleteditems,regularlywhennotneeded.
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•IncreasemaxconnectionsinSBServer.ini(insomecases).
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