Planning guidelines

The following are guidelines for capacity planning. These are based on Axway's performance and scalability tests of Central Governance. See Performance benchmarks for results of the Axway tests. Use these guidelines to develop your own capacity plan based on your processing requirements and deployment infrastructure.

Performance of Central Governance is affected by:

• Processing power of servers
• Central Governance web servers configuration (PassPort, Central Governance core)
• Operating system settings (Linux)
• Transfer CFT topology

Transfer CFT topology is embodied in flows in a Central Governance environment. Axway tested a type of flow to collect performance characteristics and establish benchmarks. The corporate-to-store flow mirrors a common use case. Note that flows with the fewest paths result in faster performance and greater scalability.

A common corporate-to-store flow involves:

• Stores sending daily sales and inventory data to corporate headquarters
• Headquarters sending daily updated prices lists to stores

Details of such data exchanges are:

• At headquarters, a corporate application is integrated with a single instance of Transfer CFT
• The corporate application can exchange data, via Transfer CFT, with all stores
• Each store has a single instance of Transfer CFT on premise
• The stores can exchange data with the corporate application
• The stores cannot exchange data among themselves

This corporate-to-store flow is scalable because the number paths for n stores is n.

The following graphic illustrates a simple corporate-to-store flow.