Environment sizing tools

To allow users to more accurately assess environment sizing requirements, the Plixer Scrutinizer web interface includes several views that display current system utilization and/or recommended resource allocation.

System performance summary

The Admin > Resources > System Performance page includes tables showing current and predicted disk utiization per Collector, based on the current data retention settings, along with a recommended disk size for each Collector.

Feature resources summary

The Admin > Resources > Feature Resources page lists resource utilization for running services and flow interrogation methods. From this page, individual features can be activated and deactivated.

An Importance column is also included to show the relative necessity of keeping a feature running in the context of Plixer Scrutinizer’s functions.

Note

Certain core Plixer Scrutinizer services must be kept running. These services will have a locked status icon and an Importance value of 100.

For more information, see the topic on the Feature Resources page of this documentation.