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Table Of Contents
- Application Discovery Manager Repository Reference Guide
- Contents
- About This Book
- Introduction
- Set Up the External Reports Scheme Configuration Policy
- External Database Setup
- ADM ERD Schema
- ADM Custom Reports
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Chapter 1 Introduction
4ThesystemrunningtheexternaldatabaseperiodicallycheckstheFTPserverfordatafilesbasedonthe
synchronizationscheduledefinedontheexternaldatabasesystem.
5Whenadatafileisfound,thefollowingprocesstakesplaceontheexternaldatabasesystem:
aThelatestZipfileisdownloaded.
bTheZipfileis
extractedtothedecompressed.csvdatafiles.
cThedatabaseloadingisperformedusingthedatabasespecificloader.
Performance and Scalability
Thefollowingstepsindicatetheamountoftimerequiredtocompleteeachprocess:
Extractionandflatfilecreation—ThissteputilizestheADMresourcestothemaximum.Therefore,itis
scheduledtoextractthedataatnightorsomeotherperiodoflowresourceconsumptionandtoallow
enoughtimetocomplete.
Transferringthedatafiles—ThisstepinvolvesuploadingoftheflatfilesfromtheADMRepository
appliancetotheexternaldatabasehost.ThisstepdoesnotconsumemanyADMresources.However,the
transfertimemightvarygreatlybecauseofnetworkconditionsattheexternaldatabasehostsite.
Loadingthedatabase—Thisstepmighttakefewhourstocomplete.