Whoever has that many polices has some mental issues.

On Mon, 23 Jul 2007, briandiven AT northwesternmutual DOT com wrote:

I thought this pic would be appropriate for us ...



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yes just over 1100 policies....it's not quite 1 client per policy as Curtis 
Preston suggests.  What we have done is to have a policy for a given dataset.  
For example, we have two exchange policies one has 13 exchange servers in it 
and the other has 10.  The reason we have two is because they are in different 
datacenters and we have a media server in each datacenter.



Most of our policies actually do have only one client per policy, but because 
we are creating policies by dataset, we will have some that have more than one 
client.



--stuart



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1,100 policies!!!!!!





Regards

Simon Weaver
3rd Line Technical Support
Windows Domain Administrator

EADS Astrium Limited, B23AA IM (DCS)
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        To: WEAVER, Simon (external); 'Edson Noboru Yamada'; Veritas-bu AT 
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        Subject: RE: [Veritas-bu] Maximum number of policies

        Hi,



        we are running NB 5.1 MP6 with around 1100 policies and over 1600 
clients.  We have been having problems with the scheduler not starting things 
when they are supposed to start.  The one thing that is very important is to 
have the proper settings in the /etc/system file for shared memory.  If you 
don't have this set correctly, you WILL have problems with the scheduler.



        We had a case open with Symantec/Veritas about this and basically we 
were told that it would be best to upgrade to 6.x because the scheduler has 
been completely re-written and is much more efficient.  We hope to upgrade to 
6.5 later this year.  In the mean time we have to figure out creative ways to 
deal with the problems of the scheduler getting bogged down.



        I believe that you should not have problems with only 100 policies if 
you have your memory settings correct in /etc/system.



        good luck.



        --stuart




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        Hi

        Well I know of a site that had 120 policies, but never reported an 
issue. Although its alot, I am not personally aware of any recommendation that 
states what the limit should be.



        Are you sure the frequency is right and the policy is enabled correctly 
?



        If at all possible, can you consolidate any of your existing policies 
and merge them ?





        Regards

        Simon Weaver
        3rd Line Technical Support
        Windows Domain Administrator

        EADS Astrium Limited, B23AA IM (DCS)
        Anchorage Road, Portsmouth, PO3 5PU

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                Hi

                I have an NBU 5.1 installation with one master server (Solaris 
9) and 6 media servers (RHEL4, Windows 2003).

                I´ve just created the 101st policy. The problem I´m running 
into is that apparently the scheduler is simply ignoring
                the backup window configured (it was supposed to start at 8pm 
but the job only is added to the queue around 2am).

                My question is: NBU 5.1 may have some kind of 100 policies 
limitation? Has anyone here with more than 100 policies/classes in place?

                Thank you

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