OSI/MHS Configuration and Management Manual

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7. Managing Your OSI/MHS

Subsystem (continued)

7. Managing Your OSI/MHS Subsystem (continued)

Verifying the DLIST, DLISTMEMBER, CUG, and CUGMEMBER Objects 7-18

Maintaining the Interfaces to OSI/AS 7-20

Finding the OSI Manager Process 7-20

Verifying OSI Addresses in MR and RS Groups 7-21

Verifying OSI Addresses in MTA Objects 7-26

Monitoring EMS Events 7-27

Displaying Current Event Messages 7-28

Displaying Saved Event Messages 7-29

Creating Simple Event Filters 7-29

Using the EMS Analyzer 7-30

Summary 7-36

8. Sizing and Tuning Your OSI/MHS Subsystem

Symptoms of Performance Problems 8-1

Performance Tuning Steps 8-2

Review Network Topology and Application Characteristics 8-2

Locations and Relationships of Message Handling Components 8-3

Number and Distribution of Users 8-4

Number and Distribution of Messages 8-4

Traffic Patterns 8-4

Average and Maximum Message Size 8-5

Message Store Use 8-5

Checking Sizing and Distribution 8-5

Using Parallelism in OSI/MHS 8-5

Configuring Supporting Software 8-7

Selecting and Allocating Physical Resources 8-9

OSI/MHS Capacity Limitations 8-10

Optimizing Routing 8-11

Defining Links and Routes 8-11

Defining APPL Objects 8-12

Defining Distribution Lists and CUGs 8-12

Tuning OSI/MHS Attributes 8-13

GI Class Attributes 8-13

LO Class Attributes 8-13

MR Class Attributes 8-13

MR Group Attributes 8-14

MS Class Attributes 8-14

RS Class Attributes 8-15