Policy Throttling

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Applies To: Opalis 6.3

By default, action servers are configured to run a maximum of 50 policies each. You can change this number using the action server policy Throttling Utility. We recommend that you keep the default setting of 50 policies per action server. However, if you do adjust this number, consider the following factors when planning a change:

  • Are there many policies running on the action server or only a few?

  • Do these policies run frequently or infrequently?

  • Do these policies require a lot of CPU resources to run?

  • Do these policies have a few steps in each workflow or many steps?

Generally, when there are many policies running on an action server that have high resource needs, you would run fewer policies. Alternatively, if there are many policies on an action server, but they are short policies, require fewer resources to run, or run infrequently, you could run more policies on each action server.

Before you use this utility, verify that the datastore has been configured and that there is at least one action server deployed.

To configure the maximum number of policies that an action server will process

  1. Open a command prompt and navigate to the System Drive:\Program Files\Opalis Software\Opalis Integration Server\Management Service folder.

  2. Type one of the following commands:

    • To apply the change to one action server: aspt <ActionServerName> <MaximumRunningPolicies>.

      Example: aspt ActionServer1 40. This sets the maximum number of policies that ActionServer1 will run to 40.

    • To apply the change to all action servers: aspt * <MaximumRunningPolicies>.

      Example: aspt * 40. This sets the maximum number of policies that all action servers will run to 40.

  3. Restart the action servers.