Data Collector - Sizing, Polling Limitations

Products

• CA Infrastructure Management
• CA Performance Management - Usage and Administration
• DX NetOps

Issue/Introduction

Data Collector with 16 GB of RAM and 8 cores.

He is working at 97%, but does not consume all his resources. I enclose evidence.

I have a problem because I have several pingable devices.

Environment

Release : 3.7

Component : IM Reporting / Admin / Configuration

Resolution

We do not recommend if you overpass to more than 500.000 polled items:

You have 2 options:

 

1 - Retire elements:

https://techdocs.broadcom.com/content/broadcom/techdocs/us/en/ca-enterprise-software/it-operations-management/performance-management/3-7/building/manage-devices/delete-components-that-are-not-present.html 

2 - Rebalance to a new DC:

https://techdocs.broadcom.com/content/broadcom/techdocs/us/en/ca-enterprise-software/it-operations-management/performance-management/3-7/administrating/data-aggregator-administration/rebalance-the-load-on-data-collector.html