How to increase JVM space on SOI Catalyst Container nodes

Products

• CA Service Operations Insight (SOI)

Issue/Introduction

By default the JVM space on any SOI Catalyst Container was 2GB, if the MDR has many CIs, Alerts etc the default memory may not be sufficient. This needs to be adjusted accordingly

How to increase JVM space on SOI Catalyst Container machine like UIM, SCOM Connector etc

Environment

Catalyst Container 3.4.1 & 3.4.2

Resolution

1) Stop "CA Catalyst Container Services"

2) Update "\Catalyst\CatalystConnector\jsw\conf\Catalyst-Container.conf" and increase 

# Maximum Java Heap Size (in MB)
wrapper.java.maxmemory=2048

To

# Maximum Java Heap Size (in MB)
wrapper.java.maxmemory=4096

Note: In order to increase JVM space to 4GB, Please make sure the VM has at least 8 GB Physical memory and you may increase this value accordingly

3) Start "CA Catalyst Container Services"