Best Practice question

[mvanhanehan]

Best Practices (simple) question: I was reading an 'older' best practices paper that said, "Avoid issuing RSD Agent Wake-ups," you should;

–Wait one full ASCI after deploying the RSD sensor

–If an agent wake-up is absolutely required, then avoid waking up numerous sensors at once

Is this still (or was it ever) the case?

[cdinet · Accepted solution]

There shouldn't really be a need to run a lot of wakeups.  They are meant to be used sparingly, as too many wakeups at once can tie up the datachannel communications within epo.  So you would basically need to determine the need and frequency of doing so.  An agent on service startup should communicate to epo within 10 minutes.  Otherwise it talks on its asci interval.  RSD sensors don't communicate on an asci, they send their data based on the rsd policies directly to tomcat.