High-Performance Configuration - Novell SENTINEL 6.1 SP2 - INSTALLATION GUIDE 02-2010 Installation Manual

4 Open the
5 Ensure that ORATAB pointing is to
NOTE: If ORATAB is not in the above specified location on your system, modify the
ORATAB path manually to the exact location.
6 Click Save.
After Sentinel is installed, you must install the Crystal Reporting server and the Sentinel Core
Solution Pack.
DAS and the Sentinel Database are typically located in a secure area of your network.
However, you might want to add another security layer to protect the data being transmitted
from DAS to the database. For Oracle, the DBA can use the Advanced Security feature. For
SQL Server, the DBA can enable the SSL functionality in the jTDS driver. For more
information, go to

3.9.8 High-Performance Configuration

There are several recommendations for configuring a high-performance Sentinel system.
The Sentinel Server machine with Data Access Server (DAS) must have a local or shared

striped disk array (RAID) with a minimum of four disk spindles because of high event loads
and local caching.
The distributed hosts must be connected to the other Sentinel Server hosts through a single

high-speed switch (GigE) in order to prevent network traffic bottlenecks.
The Crystal Reports Server should be installed on its own dedicated machine, particularly if the

database is large or reporting usage is heavy.
To achieve optimal performance on systems using an Oracle database, the Oracle database uses

a StorCase Disk Array (16 disks) to store data files and a separate local SATA drive to hold the
Oracle Redo log.
To achieve optimal performance on the Sentinel server, the file directory that holds DAS

aggregation data and
To change the file directory for aggregation and buffers:
NOTE: The esecadm user or the user running the Sentinel services must have write permission to
the file directory that holds the DAS aggregation data and insertErrorBuffer.
1 On the Sentinel server (DAS installed machine), open the
On Windows:
On Linux:
2 Change the
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script for edit from
dbshut
jTDS FAQ (http://jtds.sourceforge.net/faq.html)
insertErrorBuffer
%ESEC_HOME%\config\das_binary.xml
$ESEC_HOME/config/das_binary.xml
value in the following component:
rootDirectory
$ORACLE_HOME/bin/dbshut
.
ORATAB=/etc/oratab
can be pointed to a separate local SATA hard drive.
das_binary.xml
.
and search for "ssl".
file for editing.