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DMA Hard Disk Requirements

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Dave Keller [DevOps Enabler]1.79K 21 hours ago 0 Comments

We have just built several new DMAs, using the required specifications as listed on docs.dataminer.services

We have just run the BPA on the DMAs and have discovered that the BPA is upset that the hard disk isn't 300GB:

So the question is, is the required specifications incorrect, or is the BPA?
(please can the BPA be adjusted, as we have only just built these DMAs)

Edib Šupić [SLC] [DevOps Enabler] Answered question 10 hours ago

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Edib Šupić [SLC] [DevOps Enabler]2.37K Posted 10 hours ago 1 Comment

Hi Dave,

BPA stands for Best Practice Analyzer, not Required Practice Analyzer, meaning that even if all of the results were a failure you would still be able to make use of your DMA, albeit in less optimal way. The idea behind BPAs is to guide user in the right direction, not to enforce things. Ideally you should strive for BPA results to show no issues, but depending on your situation that may not be worth the effort.

For example these are my local testing agents BPAs for security. Ideally I would address all of these, but since this is local testing DMA it's simply not worth the effort.

In your case the main question is how much load do you expect on the system?

Regarding the requirement difference between BPAs and the documentation I will check internally. Since DataMiner is evolving constantly it is sometimes hard to keep all the information in sync. I apologise if this causes you inconveniences.

Let me know if you need help with anything else,
Kind regards

Bert Vandenberghe [SLC] [DevOps Enabler] Posted new comment 9 hours ago
Bert Vandenberghe [SLC] [DevOps Enabler] commented 9 hours ago

Our apologies, but the BPA is indeed outdated, the documentation is correct.
We lowered the specs a while ago, I do find traces back that we were going to update the associated BPA, but it got stuck somewhere along the way. We'll get that fixed now! Thanks for pointing that out!

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