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  • 1.  Software Delivery Engine optimization

    Posted Jan 21, 2019 05:45 AM

    Hey guys,

     

    we are having huge delays on software delivery engine. I have narrowed down this to the nature of Intellirollup patches. When they are being staged or deployed, there is a huge overhead in the System Delivery Engine.

     

    The thing is, Intellirollup patches include more than 200 or 300 packages each. This is then being staged to more than 100 servers and creates a big job, which slows down Software Delivery Engine big time. Practically the whole infrastructure slows down, DTS transfers are halted and Software delivery gets very,very slow...

     

    Is there any way to assign more memory or CPU to the engine itself? Are there any workarounds?

    Using Intellirollups should simplify the process, but instead it resulted as a big drawback for us.

     

    Any suggestions?

     

    Version r14 SP2

     

    Thanks,

    R



  • 2.  Re: Software Delivery Engine optimization

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted Jan 25, 2019 05:27 AM

    One of the main benefits of the Intellirollup is that once you have done

    the staging of the one then each month after only the new patches for that

    month are sent and not the whole lot again.

     

     

     

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  • 3.  Re: Software Delivery Engine optimization

    Posted Jan 27, 2019 11:17 PM

    Some additional input for improving the health of the SD database, which will lend to performance improvements of the System Delivery Engine:

     

    1) Cleanup and delete obsolete software packages from the DSM Software Library.  There's a database tool within WinOffline that will help identify which software packages are "unused" and not installed on any agents.

     

    2) Run CleanApps, to remove duplicate usd_applic records from the database.  You can find the steps to do this here: Software Delivery Job Container Build Failed - CA Knowledge 

     

    3) While CAF is stopped, run these queries to cleanup orphaned records in the software delivery database tables.  Be sure to terminate/delete all existing job containers first.  If any fail to terminate on their own, this script will also fix that:

     

    print 'Cleanup jobs in terminating state.'
    declare @var_objectid varchar(50)
    declare job_delete cursor for

    select objectid from usd_job_cont where state=8 and objectid in (select jobcont from usd_jcview) and objectid in (select jcchild from usd_link_jc) and objectid in (select jcont from usd_link_jc_act)

    open job_delete
    fetch job_delete into @var_objectid
    while (@@fetch_status=0)
    begin
      delete usd_jcview where jobcont=@var_objectid
      delete usd_link_jc where jcchild=@var_objectid
      delete usd_link_jc_act where jcont=@var_objectid
      delete usd_cc where objectid=@var_objectid
      delete usd_job_cont where objectid=@var_objectid
    fetch job_delete into @var_objectid
    end

    close job_delete
    deallocate job_delete
    go

    print 'Mark usd_applic records, referencing a non-existent usd_activity, for cleanup.'
    update usd_applic
    set activity=0x00000000000000000000000000000000
    where activity <> 0x00000000000000000000000000000000
    and activity not in (select objectid from usd_activity)
    go

    print 'Cleanup usd_applic records orphaned from any activation procedure.'
    delete from usd_applic where actproc not in (select objectid from usd_actproc) and actproc <> 0x00000000000000000000000000000000
    go

    print 'Cleanup usd_applic records orphaned from any usd_target (i.e. non-existent target).'
    delete from usd_applic where target not in (select objectid from usd_v_target)
    go

    print 'Cleanup orphaned usd_activity records.'
    delete from usd_activity where objectid not in (select activity from usd_link_jc_act)
    go

    print 'Cleanup orphaned usd_actproc records.'
    delete from usd_actproc where rsw not in (select objectid from usd_rsw)
    go

    print 'Cleanup orphaned usd_link_swg_sw records.'
    delete from usd_link_swg_sw where sw not in (select objectid from usd_rsw)
    go

     

    The combination of all three of these actions should improve the overall performance of software delivery and the delivery engine.

     

    -Brian