[THIN] Re: Server set ups

Hi,

The RM database connection server can be any server in your farm. It has no
relation whatsoever with zone data collectors from a functional viewpoint.

If you've got a dedicated data collector it makes sense to have it work as
the RM database connection server as well, but it doesn't have to be set up
that way. There is no backup datbase connection server, RM is not zone
oriented (disregarding possible flakey memory on my part) and RM summary
data collection is to all farm servers, regardless of zone.

At a nominated time, generally early morning, the RM database connection
server connects to each server in the farm and pulls a summary of the
rmlocaldb access database contents into the RM summary database. That's once
every 24 hours.

It's not a mission critical activity since a Citrix servers RM local
database retains data for 3 days. If a database connection server dies, all
I have to do is assign a different server (with system DSN etc) to act in
that role and things are back up and running. If you do that before the next
data aggregation window, nothing is lost.

regards,

Rick

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Ulrich Mack
www.commander.com
On Jan 26, 2008 9:12 AM, Berny Stapleton <berny@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The designated data collectors do, but unless you specify what is
> going to happen, i.e. which one is the primary, which one is backup
> for each zone, then you might be better off installing on all of them.
>
> My understanding is the same as yours, so we could be wrong on this
> one. Anyone else care to confirm for us?
>
> On 25/01/2008, Beckett, William (Bill) <WBECKETT@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >
> > I'm a little confused as to a current configuration and wondered if this
> was
> > accurate or not. Running a PS 4.0 farm on W2K3. My general understanding
> of
> > the summary database and data collector is essentially all of the
> servers in
> > the farm have a local rm database. The designated data collector
> collects
> > summary data from the other servers. If there are multiple zones, each
> data
> > collector for their respective zone does the collection and then sends
> that
> > data to the datastore once every 24 hours.
> >
> >
> > If I'm wrong on the above, then disregard the rest until I get it right.
> :)
> >
> > If correct, then proceding....the datastore can be a SQL db or Oracle.
> In
> > this case an oracle DB so the data collectors needs a system DSN
> defined. My
> > question is if the majority of the servers just pass along data to the
> data
> > collectors, do any of those needs a system dsn and oracle client
> installed
> > OR just the designated data collectors?
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