3.3 PlateSpin Recon

PlateSpin Recon is a workload profiling, analysis and planning solution. Inventory and workload utilization statistics are collected in a Microsoft SQL Server database which allows remote access by external applications such as Operations Center.

Use the PlateSpin Recon Adapter to visualize your virtual infrastructure and create an inventory of both physical and virtual machines, allowing you to profile server workloads and evaluate performance. For more information about PlateSpin Recon, go to http://www.novell.com/products/recon/.

PlateSpin Recon collects statistical information on various components of the infrastructure including applications, processes, and/or services; and exposes them as individual schedules to provide better control over the memory footprint. Operations Center logs in to the PlateSpin Recon database to import this data collected over time. Query schedules for each data type are defined in the adapter properties to determine when Operations Center polls the PlateSpin Recon databases for new information.

To integrate Operations Center directly with PlateSpin Recon without an ORB:

Often with discovery tools it can be difficult to estimate the memory demands when an adapter is integrated. Table 3-4 gives you some idea of the additional memory usage demanded on the Operations Center server based on the number of Recon elements: