Adjusting the allocated memory used by the NCM Client

Products

• VMware Smart Assurance

Issue/Introduction

Overview of how to change the allocated memory used by the NCM client

Environment

NCM 10.X

Resolution

You will need root/administrative access to the application server(s) to edit the necessary files mentioned in the following instructions.

To change the allocated memory in VoyenceControl, do the following:

• Open the powerup.jnlp file in the following directory on the application server:
  

  $VOYENCE_HOME/ui/html/powerup.jnlp 

  
  
•  Change the following line(s) in the powerup.jnlp file: 
  
    

  <j2se version="1.5.0_14" href="http://java.sun.com/products/autodl/j2se "initial-heap-size="128m" max-heap-size="256m" java-vm-args="-Xincgc"/>
  <j2se version="1.5.0_13" href="http://java.sun.com/products/autodl/j2se" initial-heap-size="128m" max-heap-size="256m" java-vm-args="-Xincgc"/>
  <j2se version="1.5.0_11" href="http://java.sun.com/products/autodl/j2se" initial-heap-size="128m" max-heap-size="256m" java-vm-args="-Xincgc"/>
  <j2se version="1.5.0_10" href="http://java.sun.com/products/autodl/j2se" initial-heap-size="128m" max-heap-size="256m" java-vm-args="-Xincgc"/>
  <j2se version="1.5.0_09" href="http://java.sun.com/products/autodl/j2se" initial-heap-size="128m" max-heap-size="256m" java-vm-args="-Xincgc"/>
  <j2se version="1.5.0_08" href="http://java.sun.com/products/autodl/j2se" initial-heap-size="128m" max-heap-size="256m" java-vm-args="-Xincgc"/>
  

  
  to:
         

  <j2se version="1.5.0_14" href="http://java.sun.com/products/autodl/j2se" initial-heap-size="256m" max-heap-size="512m" java-vm-args="-Xincgc"/>
  <j2se version="1.5.0_13" href="http://java.sun.com/products/autodl/j2se" initial-heap-size="256m" max-heap-size="512m" java-vm-args="-Xincgc"/>
  <j2se version="1.5.0_11" href="http://java.sun.com/products/autodl/j2se" initial-heap-size="256m" max-heap-size="512m" java-vm-args="-Xincgc"/>
  <j2se version="1.5.0_10" href="http://java.sun.com/products/autodl/j2se" initial-heap-size="256m" max-heap-size="512m" java-vm-args="-Xincgc"/>
  <j2se version="1.5.0_09" href="http://java.sun.com/products/autodl/j2se" initial-heap-size="256m" max-heap-size="512m" java-vm-args="-Xincgc"/>
  <j2se version="1.5.0_08" href="http://java.sun.com/products/autodl/j2se" initial-heap-size="256m" max-heap-size="512m" java-vm-args="-Xincgc"/>

   

• Note: initial-heap-size="128" max-heap-size="256m" gets changed into initial-heap-size="256m" max-heap-size="512m"

• Save and quit the powerup.jnlp file. 

Additional Information

This change will apply to all clients that use NCM. 

It is recommended that the client machines have at least 1.5GB of system RAM for this change.

The variable $VOYENCE_HOME refers to the installed location of NCM, typically in the following directory:

/opt/voyence