r11 Management Command Center Scalability Tests Revised July

© 2005 Computer Associates International, Inc. (CA). All trademarks, trade names, services marks and logos referenced herein belong to their respective companies. 2 Objectives -The objective of this test is to generate many status changes and verify the accurate status is seen in the user interfaces. -This simulates status storms that may be generated by CA applications such as Agent Technology DSM managing large numbers of managed objects -Analyze memory utilization when launched from Terminal services sessions -Analyze the response time with different number of MCC Sessions

Overview

© 2005 Computer Associates International, Inc. (CA). All trademarks, trade names, services marks and logos referenced herein belong to their respective companies. 4 Setup Cluster Node ACluster Node B Highly Available Ingres MDB MCC Client on a non clustered node

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© 2005 Computer Associates International, Inc. (CA). All trademarks, trade names, services marks and logos referenced herein belong to their respective companies. 6 Status Changes -Status Changes are instrumented using a custom built WV Stress utility (not available to clients) -Updates status in an orderly manner to verify status changes -Objects are created with specific naming standards to provide for mass updates and status tracking

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Test 1 - Memory Utilization

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© 2005 Computer Associates International, Inc. (CA). All trademarks, trade names, services marks and logos referenced herein belong to their respective companies. 14 Test 1 Plan -Establish 20 Terminal Services Client connections -10 connections from each server -Launch 1 MCC session from each session -Launch Classic 2dmap -Generate 8000 status updates -Review Memory utilization

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© 2005 Computer Associates International, Inc. (CA). All trademarks, trade names, services marks and logos referenced herein belong to their respective companies. 18 Memory Usage after 8000 Updates ApplicationSession Memory (mb) Peak MCC Clients Server A1092 MCC Clients – Server B Classic CATNG2d – Server A1051 Classic CATNG2d – Server B266 Classic 2dmap CA Notify – Server A Classic 2dmap CA Notify – Server B11.5 Terminal Client Session104 Terminal Client Session104.5

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© 2005 Computer Associates International, Inc. (CA). All trademarks, trade names, services marks and logos referenced herein belong to their respective companies. 20 Conclusion -Memory Utilization for MDB (CORE) objects -100 mb for each MCC Client session -70 mb for the Classic 2dmap -The MCC Client size will vary depending on the display

Test 2 - Propagated Severity -Classic GUI

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© 2005 Computer Associates International, Inc. (CA). All trademarks, trade names, services marks and logos referenced herein belong to their respective companies. 23 Test 2 – Test Plan -Create 8000 Windows System Agent objects with unispace, host and ip_subnet objects. -Stop DSM services to prevent any unsolicited status changes -Launch 4 MCC clients sessions. -2 MCC clients from each Terminal Server -Update status from Normal to Critical -Analyze time it takes to update the status changes -Verify Severity Propagation and status reflected correctly for all objects in MCC and 2dmap running in non delta mode

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© 2005 Computer Associates International, Inc. (CA). All trademarks, trade names, services marks and logos referenced herein belong to their respective companies. 32 Test 2 - Conclusion -With 4 mcc sessions and 8000 status updates -2dmap reports status changes almost instantly as the MDB is updated -MCC clients take 5 mins more than 2dmap to reflect all status updates -As the number of MCC sessions goes up, the time it takes for MCC to reflect all changes will increase as well.

Test 3 - Database Updates

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© 2005 Computer Associates International, Inc. (CA). All trademarks, trade names, services marks and logos referenced herein belong to their respective companies. 35 Test 3 – Test Plan -Generate 8000 status. -Analyze the time it takes for MDB Updates as a result of 8000 status changes. -severity propagation for Windows Hosts -severity propagation for IP_Subnets

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© 2005 Computer Associates International, Inc. (CA). All trademarks, trade names, services marks and logos referenced herein belong to their respective companies. 40 DB Updates This shows the rate of Propagated Severity Database updates as a result of status change Start TimeQuery TimeNo. Of HostIP SubnetsElapsed Time DB Updates Rate / Sec 3 Levels Down 18:55: :56: :56: :57: :57: :58: :59: :59: Average No DB Updates Per Second Calculations are based on 3 levels down. In theory there may be more 3 updates for each change in status. One for System Agent, Unispace and the Host object. In addition, there will be one for IP_Subnet and IP_Network. These updates have been discarded for this test.

Test 4 - MCC Clients Scalability

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© 2005 Computer Associates International, Inc. (CA). All trademarks, trade names, services marks and logos referenced herein belong to their respective companies. 43 Test 4 – Test Plan -Launch 23 MCC client sessions -10 Terminal Services sessions from Server A. -10 Terminal Services sessions from Server B -3 Terminal Services sessions from Server C -Generate 8000 status changes -Verify the status changes reflected correctly on all sessions -Analyze the time it takes to reflect status changes in MCC client and classic 2dmap

© 2005 Computer Associates International, Inc. (CA). All trademarks, trade names, services marks and logos referenced herein belong to their respective companies. 44 RMI_Server Sessions 1SessionID: 2SessionID: 055fc21a c-85ed-99745b0057ed 3SessionID: 269e0c70-a1e5-457e-9b07-952dfbdf676a 4SessionID: 2d af0d fcb SessionID: 3522ff fa1-8b9e-60c0a SessionID: 3633ec42-7fcb-4fc5-bbe2-3060ffacbe27 7SessionID: 4483b6d b83-bd72-08c52ae91b59 8SessionID: 52d28c35-cc75-4c6b-b372-c4c56f4edc2c 9SessionID: 6ac0dad8-9a81-442a-a9c3-7325c1b4f9e0 10SessionID: 76ae2423-1eac-4c11-8fad-dcf30a385f11 11SessionID: 81a95bba b10-b5c1-389f666e SessionID: 837f3e5e-4a35-4b8c-a838-f10876b4303e 13SessionID: 8aae6484-ebb3-46d afa1ee78 14SessionID: a5589a50-e697-4ebc-b867-2c1d42dfef7c 15SessionID: a6ad00fc-0a44-490c f641b4bedc 16SessionID: ab25ab4b-482a-492e-83ac aa6bc5 17SessionID: ac2c8632-d8f6-421a-87d4-83af336d4b0d 18SessionID: b2edb56c-b a1-a2a9f56eeacb 19SessionID: b c38b-41ee-8ba6-cca34b0c9af7 20SessionID: c15a521f-252b-43b7-baa7-391d SessionID: cb8344e1-580a-4375-b740-e20390b0b8cb 22SessionID: e2518a4f-a8cc-474f-9a17-d5630af03d70 23SessionID: f06b443b-91ef-4cb9-9d1e-e12c1af14b2d 24SessionID: f9a e0-48d9-92d aae79 25SessionID: faf3d81c-e333-4a72-9cbc-aeeae5dd34ce This confirms 23 MCC Client sessions

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© 2005 Computer Associates International, Inc. (CA). All trademarks, trade names, services marks and logos referenced herein belong to their respective companies. 46 Status Changes - End 330 Seconds to generate 8000 status changes Update status to change the severity to Warning

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© 2005 Computer Associates International, Inc. (CA). All trademarks, trade names, services marks and logos referenced herein belong to their respective companies. 48 MCC Client - Server A – Updates in Progress Approx 15 mins to reflect status changes on 23 MCC Clients

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© 2005 Computer Associates International, Inc. (CA). All trademarks, trade names, services marks and logos referenced herein belong to their respective companies. 51 MCC Client - Server B – End Approx 17 mins to reflect status changes on all 23 MCC Clients

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© 2005 Computer Associates International, Inc. (CA). All trademarks, trade names, services marks and logos referenced herein belong to their respective companies. 55 CAM Stats – MCC Clients CAM Stats Analysis for 23 MCC Clients Server A Messages Sent Server B Messages Sent Start End Messages Sent Average number of Messages Sent per Second as reported by CAM 2217

© 2005 Computer Associates International, Inc. (CA). All trademarks, trade names, services marks and logos referenced herein belong to their respective companies. 56 Conclusion -2dmap -Status changes reflected instantly -MCC Client -The time it takes depends on the number of MCC Client sessions. This is due to the number of messages that need to be sent from WV Manager via CAM to all MCC client sessions -Status changes reflected consistently all MCC sessions. -MCC Session 23 will show the same status as MCC Session 1