Performance and Tuning Worksheet

Last Updated: 2024-01-05

The Performance and Tuning Worksheet can assist you in tuning Sterling B2B Integrator for optimal
performance.

It helps you take an inventory of the different parts of your installation that affect performance.

Note: This worksheet is optional. It does not replace the Sterling B2B Integrator System
Requirements documentation that you used to install Sterling B2B Integrator.

Use the Performance and Tuning Worksheet to help you determine your hardware requirements
according to your processing volumes, operating system, hardware vendor, and number of CPUs you are
running.

Request Description Your Answer

Enter the number of processing

days in a month. Use 30 days as
How many processing days are
an average. This gives 5 days of
there in a month?
maintenance time throughout
the year.
How many processing hours are Enter the number of hours you
there in a day? allow for processing all the data.
Enter the largest number of
translations you will have if
multiple translations are
required for a business process.
How many translations are
For example, is data mapped to
required for each transaction?
a common format, and is the
common format used to
interface with all the external
systems?
If content-based routing is
required in your business
processes, you require maps,
Is content-based routing
XML encoder, BPML choice,
required?
assigns, adapters that are used
for routing, and possibly other
components.
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This requires translating data

Does the content of a into XML. The data will then
transaction have to be verified? have to be put in process data
and verified using XPath.
Typically, only a small part of a
transaction has to be verified.
What percentage of the content However, if most of a
of the transaction should be transaction requires verification,
verified? you may have significant
resources depending on the
verification path.
How many rules have to be This is used to calculate the
applied to verify the content? Service Latency.
How many content elements Enter the number of elements
have to be verified? that have to be verified.
Current daily volume addition in
the future. The default for the
What is the future system current volume is 1. For
growth rate? example, 2 means 100% growth
or doubling the system
requirements.
What is the business process Enter the level of persistence
persistence level that is (storage to the database) you
required? require for your business
process.

Choices include:
– Full – Saves a complete copy
of process data along each
step of the process.
– Minimal – Saves all the steps
in a business process and
selected copies of process
data.
– None – Saves the first and the
last step of a business
process, steps with an
override persistence level,
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and selected steps in

business process data.
Unless you are very experienced
What is the average business
and understand business
process size (KB)?
process context, enter 3.5.
Enter the hardware vendor's
Who is the hardware vendor
name, for example, IBM®, Sun,
hosting Sterling B2B Integrator?
HP, or Dell.
What is the speed of CPUs in the Enter the speed in MHz, for
host? example, 450, 1900 (1.9 GHz).
Enter the number of CPUs
What is the number of CPUs in
installed or the number you plan
the host?
to install.
Enter the amount of memory in
What is the amount of main
MB, for example, 500 MB, 2048
memory in the host (RAM)?
MB.
What is the operating system Enter the host operating system,
that you are using to host for example, Windows Server®
Sterling B2B Integrator? 2008, AIX®, or Linux®.
For example, Red Hat Enterprise
What is the operating system Linux, Release 5, or Windows
release and version number? Server® 2008 Server Standard
Edition R2.
For example, IBM JDK 1.6.0
SR8 (64 bit) build pxa6460sr8-
20100409_01(SR8).

Your JVM version must match

What are the JVM version
the requirements for your
numbers?
version of Sterling B2B
Integrator. The build date and
lower release numbers must
also match.

What are the Sterling B2B Enter the version and patch
Integrator version and patch number for your copy of Sterling
numbers? B2B Integrator.
Who is your relational database Enter the name of the relational
vendor? database vendor Sterling B2B
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Integrator uses, for example,

Oracle, or DB2®.
Enter the version number and
What is the relational database
patch number of the relational
version and patch number?
database.
Enter the vendor name of the
other business applications that
What are the other business you use in your business, for
applications that have to be example, SAP or PeopleSoft.
integrated with? This helps determine which
adapters and services you
require to complete processing.
What are the other business Enter the version number and
applications' version number patch number of the other
and patch number? business applications.
Enter the different data formats
that you use to exchange data
with the other business
What data format do you use to applications, for example, XML
exchange data with the other or IDOC. This helps determine
business applications? the amount of translation
processing that may be needed
to increase system resource
requirements.
Enter the types of inbound
What type of inbound
transactions that Sterling B2B
transactions do you have?
Integrator will process.
Enter the average size of your
inbound transactions that
What is the average size of each Sterling B2B Integrator will
inbound transaction type? process. Base your planning on
the larger transactions at peak
times for better performance.
Enter the number of each
How many of each inbound inbound transaction type
transaction type do you receive received by you daily. This helps
daily? determine the processing
volumes.
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Enter the sum total of each

What is the sum total size of inbound transaction type. This
each inbound transaction type? helps in determining the
processing volumes.
Enter the average number of
What is the average number of
files in each inbound transaction
files in each inbound transaction
type. This helps determine the
by type?
processing volumes.
Enter the types of outbound
What types of outbound
transactions that Sterling B2B
transactions do you have?
Integrator will process.
Enter the average size of each of
your outbound transactions that
Sterling B2B Integrator will
What is the average size of each
process. Base your planning on
outbound transaction type?
the larger transactions during
peak periods for better
performance.
Enter the number of each
How many of each outbound outbound transaction type
transaction type do you receive received by you daily. This helps
daily? in determining the processing
volumes.
Enter the sum total of each
What is the sum total of each outbound transaction type. This
outbound transaction type? helps in determining the
processing volumes.
Enter the average number of
What is the average number of
files in each outbound
files in each outbound
transaction type. This helps
transaction by type?
determine processing volumes.

Parent topic:
Performance Management