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Important This documentation space contains information about PATROL Agents when deployed in a BMC Helix Operations Management environment. If you are a TrueSight Operations Management user, see PATROL Agent 21.3.

Performance benchmarks and tuning for a PATROL Agent



This topic contains the following information about the performance and network bandwidth utilization of the PATROL Agent. It explains the assumptions used in performance testing, and also lists the PATROL Agent tuning parameters. 


Performance testing configuration

The data is in this topic is based on the following configuration:

Performance test factor

Value

PATROL Agent version

21.02

PATROL for VMware vSphere version

4.0

Number of ESXi hosts

60

Number of virtual machines

2500

Number of VMware vSphere Server monitoring instances

45000

Number of attributes

175000

 

Assumptions used in performance testing

The data is in this topic is based on the following assumption:

  • The PATROL Agent and PATROL for VMware vSphere are installed on Microsoft Windows 2012 R2 64-bit.
  • The PATROL Agent and PATROL for VMware vSphere are installed on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7.2 x86_64.
  • The PATROL Agent and PATROL for VMware vSphere monitor a large virtual center that comprises 2500 virtual machines.
  • The PATROL Agent is connected to BMC Helix Operations Management.
  • The network bandwidth between the PATROL Agent and the BMC Helix Operations Management is monitored using tools such as NetLimiter and PerfMon when the PATROL Agent is sending data to BMC Helix Operations Management.
  • All the readings are taken in a network bandwidth capacity of 1 Gbps.

PATROL Agent tuning parameters

The following parameters have been documented based on testing the default configuration variables for the data flow between the PATROL Agent and BMC Helix Operations Management:

Parameter

Supported range

Default maximum event message to flow to BMC Helix Operations Management in one cycle = 100

50 - 1000

Default maximum data message to flow to BMC Helix Operations Management in one cycle= 100

50 - 1000

The data value transfer rate between the PATROL Agent and BMC Helix Operations Management is at 100 parameter values per second.

PATROL Agent network bandwidth utilization

The following table contains information about the network bandwidth utilized between one PATROL Agent and BMC Helix Operations Management.

Agent host network total bytes in and out (KB/sec) (directly connected to BMC Helix Operations Management)

Agent host network total bytes in and out (KB/sec) (connected through proxy)

Proxy host network total bytes in and out (KB/sec)

Min

Max

Average

Min

Max

Average

Min

Max

Average

17

320

122

13

400

132

12

2003

804

This data contains the following load:

  • vCenter with 2000 devices
  • 38000 monitors
  • 145000 attributes

 

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