CHAPTER 17Maintain and Tune Grid Control

In this last chapter, we examine how to maintain and tune your Grid Control environment. As mentioned in Chapter 1, Grid Control can scale for hundreds of users and thousands of targets, but only if you’re diligent about maintenance for the life of the deployment. Such maintenance is necessary regardless of the workload or size of your GC site. Without it, Grid Control, like your car, would start knocking, and at some point would stop working altogether.1 The cornerstone of software maintenance is periodic housekeeping. In addition, you need to monitor Grid Control, which involves collecting an initial baseline of metric performance, with the help of both built-in and User-Defined Metrics (UDMs). Using ...

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