Configuration guidelines for 500 or more agents

You can use this information to help you manage 500 or more Storage Resource agents in IBM Spectrum® Control.

If you have 500 or more Storage Resource agents communicating with IBM Spectrum Control, complete the following steps:

  1. Probe the servers at least once a day or more, depending on when you want to test for alert conditions.
  2. Set the following parameters in the server.config file:
    MaxConnections=1200
    The default is 500. Agents can have multiple connections to the server.
    routerThreads=3 (max)
    Incoming connections need to be routed to the correct Data Manager "service" queue and can stack up behind this thread. The server service runs the router and the agent service is where the connections are queued once routed and saved by any of three threads here to the repository.
  3. Set the following parameter in the Scheduler.config file:
    MaxSubmitthreads=8
    Tells how many threads are used to tell the agents to start a job. Agent connections can queue up the scheduler service. After a job is run, the agent makes a connection to communicate with this thread to give it the job status.