VMWare Smart Assurance SAM Adapters: What is the sustained trap processing rate for the trap receiver? What is the ideal rate?

Products

• VMware Smart Assurance

Issue/Introduction

Symptoms:
What is the sustained trap processing rate for the VMWare Smart Assurance SAM Adapters trap receiver?
What is the ideal trap processing rate for the VMWare Smart Assurance SAM Adapters trap receiver?

Environment

VMware Smart Assurance - SMARTS

Resolution

Trap processing rates in VMWare Smart Assurance SAM Adapters depend on the trap configuration, including mainly the hook scripts invoked and the execution of the findComputerSystem call.

The ideal rate without any kind of delay should be around 30-40 traps per second, with 4 trap processing threads. The average trap processing rate observed for most environments is around 10-15 traps per second. These numbers are very subjective should be considered only general guidelines as the processing rate number can be significantly impacted by both the network and the trap configuration.