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| bjeergie |
 Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 6:17 am Post subject: benchmark |
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This is to perform daily system administration of MQ on Unix systems.
Do we have any industry benchmark on "how many MQ systems can one person handle"
This will be helpful in recruiting staff for datacentre support. |
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| Vitor |
| Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 6:25 am Post subject: |
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Depends on how good the person is, level of change in the environment, level of problems experienced in the environment, amount of maintenance automated within the environment, maturity of the environment, etc, etc.
If it's been set up so that the rountine tasks and error handling is fully automated, the applications are written to standards & fully tested, no change is ever made without full regression test you can manage without any staff at all (the mythical "black room" so beloved by Ops managers)
The number of people increases the further you move away from this impossible ideal. I'm not aware of any support pacs or similar giving time & motion metrics or the like.
My 2 cents - other opinions are equally likely to be valid.
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| jefflowrey |
| Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 6:39 am Post subject: |
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It's almost entirely dependant on the volume of work, and not on the number of systems.
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| kevinf2349 |
| Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 6:47 am Post subject: |
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| It's almost entirely dependant on the volume of work, and not on the number of systems. |
I agree 100% but would also add that it also depends on how good your application programmers are!
My experience is that administration is not that big of a deal, but the 'consulting' and design stages are where the effort leads to the biggest payoffs. Design the application around the strengths of MQ and administration is a breeze, try to use MQ to overcome badly designed applications and the whole process becomes a nightmare. |
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| exerk |
| Posted: Wed Jan 31, 2007 8:47 am Post subject: |
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kevinf...thank you!
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| My experience is that administration is not that big of a deal, but the 'consulting' and design stages are where the effort leads to the biggest payoffs. Design the application around the strengths of MQ and administration is a breeze, try to use MQ to overcome badly designed applications and the whole process becomes a nightmare. |
I have copied this to management 
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| Vitor |
| Posted: Thu Feb 01, 2007 1:31 am Post subject: |
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| kevinf2349 wrote: |
| Design the application around the strengths of MQ and administration is a breeze, try to use MQ to overcome badly designed applications and the whole process becomes a nightmare. |
I'm going to paint this on the wall!
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