2.5 Sizing Recommendation for Analytics Server

2.5.1 Hardware Requirements for Analytics Server

For the demonstration purpose, the 50 GB hard disk is required. For a production environment, the hard disk requirement depends on the Access Manager login pattern for a day. For other system requirements for Analytics Server, see System Requirements of Analytics Server.

The following recommendations consider only Analytics Server-specific Access Manager Audit events. For information about Analytics Server events, see Enabling Events for Each Graph in the NetIQ Access Manager 5.0 Administration Guide.

Any change in Access Manager Audit events selection changes the disk requirement.

25000 logins per day

50000 logins per day

100000 logins per day

Number of days

Disk space in GB

Disk space in GB

Disk space in GB

1

0.058

0.115

0.23

10

0.575

1.15

2.3

30

1.725

3.45

6.9

60

3.45

6.9

13.8

90

5.175

10.35

20.7

120

6.9

13.8

27.6

180

10.495

20.9875

41.975

2.5.2 Analytics Server Data Retention

The events stored in Analytics Server are retained in the local storage for 180 days. After 180 days, all events are purged from Analytics Server.