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Tuning your environment

You can improve the performance of your IBM Business Monitor infrastructure and components by modifying certain configuration settings in your monitoring environment.

For information about tuning your IBM Business Monitor environment, refer to the following topics.

You can find more general information about server and database tuning in the IBM BPM "Tuning " topics. See the link under "Related concepts".

• Tuning your Windows virtual memory settings
  To ensure that you have sufficient memory to deploy models and perform other processes like sending and receiving events, you can increase the maximum virtual memory on your Windows system.
• Tuning the Monitor database
  Like all operational databases, the Monitor database requires regular maintenance and tuning. Some DB2 tools can help you to enhance the use and performance of the databases.
• Manage instance data
  To maintain dashboard performance and ensure that your system runs efficiently, you can purge, archive, export, and import instance data for a monitor model version.
• Configure Java heap sizes
  The default initial and maximum heap sizes in most implementations of Javaâ„¢ are too small for many of the servers in the Business Process Management configuration. IBM Business Monitor and its prerequisite servers are installed with larger heap sizes, but you might find it beneficial to check that these sizes are appropriate for your hardware and workload.
• Configure CEI
  By default, when an event arrives at Common Event Infrastructure (CEI), it is delivered to the registered consumer (in this case, a particular monitor model) and also into an additional, default queue. Unless this extra queue is needed, you can prevent it from being made.
• Configure work manager maximum threads
  The processing of incoming events for a model is done through the use of several work manager thread pools. You can change the value of the Maximum number of threads property for the work managers to get full use of all available processors on an IBM Business Monitor server.
• Enable KPI caching
  The cost of calculating aggregate KPI values increases as completed process instances accumulate in the database. A KPI cache is available to reduce the number of these calculations.

Related concepts:
Tuning IBM BPM