Improving Performance

Note The information in this chapter applies to both UNIX workstations (Maps and SNA View) and Windows NT systems (SNA View).

This chapter provides information on techniques you can use to improve the performance of the CiscoWorks Blue applications.

This chapter includes the following main sections:

Stopping the Monitor Daemon on UNIX workstations

If you are locked out of Maps views due to continual view updates, try stopping the monitor daemon so that it will not keep trying to update the maps. To stop the monitor daemon, use the Process Manager client or use the cwb stop cwbmonitord command. You must now manually refresh the Maps views because they are no longer automatically updated.

Stopping the Poller Daemon While Doing Discovery

Before you select Administration > Discover to discover your DLSw or RSRB network, stop the poller daemon using either the cwb stop cwbrsrbpollerd or cwb stop cwbdlswpollerd command or the Process Manager. When discovery is done, you can restart the poller daemon using the cwb start cwbrsrbpollerd or cwb start cwbdlswpollerd command or the Process Manager.

Limiting Remote Users for UNIX Workstations

If you are running short of memory at the Maps workstation, you should limit the number of remote Maps users. Each Maps session requires approximately 20 MB of system memory in addition to the memory needed to display each graphical map.

Closing Unused Maps Windows for UNIX Workstations

You should close the Maps windows when you no longer need them open. When several Maps windows are open, any change in a view to any one of the open windows causes all Maps windows to hang until the changing view has been completely refreshed. The delay is especially noticeable when a change occurs in a global view, in which any network change can result in a lengthy update cycle.

Improving DLSw Poller Performance

There are several changes you can make to improve the performance of the DLSw poller. You can customize the number of active threads to improve the bandwidth or the response time, and you can limit the amount of polling in the network.

Improving Bandwidth or Response Time

You can make changes to the DLSw poller's threads and sleep times on UNIX workstations (described in the "Using cwbinit to Configure Polling Intervals" section) that will improve either bandwidth (the amount of network resources consumed by DLSw) or response time (the time it takes the DLSw application to detect a change in the network):

To decrease the bandwidth, decrease the number of threads, and increase the sleep time.
To improve response time, increase the number of threads, and decrease the sleep time.

For Windows NT systems, see the "Configuring DLSw" section. Display the SNA Connection tab, click Edit and adjust the Timing Intervals.

UNIX Workstations

You can change the number of threads by changing the values of these numKeyPeerPollThreads, numNonKeyPeerPollThreads, and numKeyCircuitPollThreads variables in the cwbinit file.

Windows NT

You can change the bandwidth for Windows NT systems by using these Configuration application. For more information, see the "Using CiscoWorks Blue SNA View Configuration for Windows NT" section.

UNIX Workstations

You can change the sleep times by changing the values of the keyCircuitPollSleepTime, nonKeyPeerPollSleepTime, and directedPollSleepTime variables in the cwbinit file.

Windows NT

You can change the response time for Windows NT systems by using the Configuration application. For more information, see the "Using CiscoWorks Blue SNA View Configuration for Windows NT" section.

Limiting Polling

You can make changes that will limit the amount of polling done by the DLSw application.

If you do not need SNA-correlation with DLSw circuits, you can stop DLSw circuit polling. To stop DLSw circuit polling, set pollKeyCircuit = off in the cwbinit file. For Windows NT systems, use the Configuration application. For more information, see the "Using CiscoWorks Blue SNA View Configuration for Windows NT" section.
If you do not want to poll the remote routers, set pollNonKeyPeer = off in the cwbinit file, and ensure that the actively managed routers are on the list of key devices. For Windows NT systems, use the Configuration application. For more information, see the "Using CiscoWorks Blue SNA View Configuration for Windows NT" section.

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