Platform recommendation?

I absolutely love Redhat + Cloverleaf. The cost savings alone are amazing.

We have never been dissapointed with AIX.

We use SNA protocols so AIX is the fit for us – and we scream!!!!

I think most supported Unix flavors (I include Linux in that group) are a better choice then Windows – that’s my opinion anyway.

I would agree with Jim in opting for a unix platform. Which flavour is really down to which operating system you, or whoever supports it are most comfortable with.

I’m a one man band in that I look after Cloverleaf development and also look after server maintenance and housekeeping etc.

I run Cloverleaf 5.6 on Solaris 10 and I’m comfortable with Solaris.

Thanks,

Dave

David, what server model are you running?

I’m running on Sun Fire V445 with 4 cpus and 16Gb memory. I have a similar configuration as backup.

Thanks,

Dave

Dwight, if you strong with Solaris, you might want to see what versions of Cloverleaf are supported on Solaris with X86 hardware.  Cost savings with hardware with the familiarity of your OS.  Other than that, Linux on X86 hardware is your next best choice for financial savings.  We have Cloverleaf on AIX and a IBM p-Series server – it is a rock-solid platform.  Stay far away from Windows, what every you do.

What’s the best way to determine daily transaction volume?

thanks,

Steve

Count the number of messages in your saved message files.

You can also compare the thread stats (hcimsiutil -dd) between two points in time.

Nightly I zero the message count but before I do that I run the hcimsiutil command like below….

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hcimsiutil -dd fr_3m_apr | grep Msgs | grep In >> /tmp/thread_stats

hcimsiutil -dd to_mps | grep Msgs | grep Out >> /tmp/thread_stats

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Then I import the thread_stats file into excel and have it produce the totals.  There may be an easy way to create the command lines but I just have a batch file I built and run nightly.

Counting the msg file is a good idea if you keep a file for every thread and we do not on some because of how we use the thread.

Good Luck,

Chris

Yeah, our nightly scripts keep track of thread stats like yours do. We used to zero the stats out nightly as well, but that was causing alerts based on the “last read time” to trigger erroneously, so now we don’t zero out the stats on a regular basis.