Updating benchmark data

The Update benchmark data option in the Administration > Benchmark Management section enables you to perform an automatic or manual update of the benchmark data, add a user benchmark data file, and validate the benchmark updates. 

To perform an automatic update of the benchmark data

If your Application Server is able to access Internet, you can perform an automatic update of the benchmark data. 

1. Navigate to Administration > Benchmark Management > Update benchmark data. 

2. To download the preliminary hardware table files with the update, select Also download preliminary hardware table files.

3. Click Update.

   The latest available ratings are automatically downloaded from ftp.bmc.com site and the benchmark values are updated in the hardware library.

To perform a manual update of the benchmark data

If your Application Server is not able to access Internet, you can perform a manual update of benchmark data. To perform a manual update of the benchmark data:

1. Download the .hrw files from ftp://ftp.bmc.com/pub/perform/gfc/hardware/21.05.00/

   Note

   Download the best1default.hrw2105, best1default.xml2105 and hrwMapDefault.xml2105. Optionally you can also download, best1prelim.xml2105 and hrwMapPrelim.xml2105.

2. Save the files in the /repository/hrwlib directory of the AS server.
3. Remove the version number from the extension of the file. For instance, for the best1default.hrw2105 change the extension of the file to best1default.hrw.

To add a user benchmark data file

To upload an XML file to add a custom benchmark or custom entries to an already existing one, perform the following task. The upload is processed by the Benchmark Alignment scheduler task.

1. Navigate to Administration > Benchmark Management > Update benchmark data. 

2. Click Choose File and select the XML file to upload.

   Note

   You can upload only the file names that begin with a letter (upper/lowercase) or number, and have maximum 254 characters except '/', '\' or  ';'.

   
   

3. Click Upload to upload the XML file.
   For more information about the format of the XML file to upload, see Benchmark XML files.

To validate the benchmark update

To validate the benchmark update, select Administration > Benchmark Management > Benchmarks. The Population date column lists file dates. If the file date is custom defined, it displays the custom date, otherwise it displays the date when the files were last updated.