Performing the Manual Update - syncsort_capacity_management - Latest

1. Create a directory under <AthCCWorkArea>\in using the Target Number from which data is to be manually imported. For example:

   …\<AthCCWorkArea>\in\tgt00001234

   You should place data files originating from databases (SQL Server, ORA­CLE etc.) in a directory under their own target number, not the target number of the Acquire host.

   Similarly, VMware VirtualCenter data should be treated as a separate Windows target using its own target number.

   As in the example above, the target number embedded in the directory name must be eight characters long. It should be left-padded with zeroes as appropriate.

2. Transfer your data files from the capture directories on the Target to the same subdirectory names under your newly created directory. So, for example:

   Data from the system directory on a UNIX or Linux machine 00001234 should go into:

   …\ <AthCCWorkArea>\in\tgt00001234\system

   For a Windows machine, target number 12345678, all data should go into:

   …\ <AthCCWorkArea>\in\tgt12345678\APMout

   For VMS, target number 00334455, all data should go into:

   …\ <AthCCWorkArea>\in\tgt00334455\apmdata

   For the IBM Performance Toolbox, target number 00000099, all data should go into:

   ...\ <AthCCWorkArea>\In\tgt00000099\aixptx

   For a z/OS system, target number 90000115, the Acquire output file should go into:

   …\ <AthCCWorkArea>\in\tgt90000115

   (In the case of z/OS there is no sub-directory name - the data goes straight into the tgt directory).

3. Where present you should include any OK files from the target system. Note these will usually be zero length. If you cannot copy a zero length file, you must manually create zero length files of exactly the same names, otherwise Control Center will ignore your data.

4. If you are transferring data using FTP, take care to transfer the files in the correct format. Usually the captured data is compressed and should be transferred in BIN format. However if compression has been switched off then ASCII format may be appropriate.

5. Once you have transferred all the files into their correct locations, rename the Target Number directory to end with the string .ready, for example:

   tgt00001234.ready

Now, Control Center can recognize that the directory contains a full set of the right kind of data, and will start to process the contents.

Thus if you used the default directory location described above your directory name would be, for example:

C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Met­ron\Work\In\tgt00001234.ready\system