How to Adjust Billing File Movement Rates

ID: Q163864

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Commercial Internet System version 1.0

IMPORTANT: This article contains information about editing the registry. Before you edit the registry, make sure you understand how to restore it if a problem occurs. For information about how to do this, view the "Restoring the Registry" Help topic in Regedit.exe or the "Restoring a Registry Key" Help topic in Regedt32.exe.

SUMMARY

The rate at which billing events are moved from the broker to the agent depends on how busy those computers are. This rate is not adjustable.

The size of billing event files is adjustable, as is the number of files replicated at a time. These, in turn, have an effect on the rate of those files being moved (via CRS) from the agent to the event collector.

MORE INFORMATION

- You cannot adjust the broker; the broker sends billing events to the

   agent as it has bandwidth to do so.

- You can adjust the rate at which the agent causes replication to the

   event collector. This is done by adjusting the following registry

entry:

   WARNING: Using Registry Editor incorrectly can cause serious problems
   that may require you to reinstall your operating system. Microsoft
   cannot guarantee that problems resulting from the incorrect use of
   Registry Editor can be solved. Use Registry Editor at your own risk.

   For information about how to edit the registry, view the "Changing Keys
   And Values" Help topic in Registry Editor (Regedit.exe) or the "Add and
   Delete Information in the Registry" and "Edit Registry Data" Help

topics

   in Regedt32.exe. Note that you should back up the registry before you
   edit it. If you are running Windows NT, you should also update your
   Emergency Repair Disk (ERD).

   1. Run REGEDT32.
   2. Go to the following subkey:

         HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Events\EventsPerFile\EventsPerLogFile

         default=2048 (decimal)

   Adjusting this registry variable changes the number of events to a

file.

   A new file is started when the old one is full. Full files are then
   replicated to the event collector. You can adjust this rate by
   increasing or reducing this value (change the number of entries in the
   file), which correlates to the rate at which files are moved from:

       <agent>\<drive>\bill.event\18\repl
   to:
       <event collector>\<drive>\bill.event\18\repl\import

- You can also adjust the number of files sent per replication sequence.

   This is done by adjusting the following registry entry:

   1. Run REGEDT32.
   2. Go to the following subkey:

         HKLM\Software\Events\EventTypes\18\NumberOfFilesPerTransmission

         default=16 (Decimal)

   Adjusting this registry variable changes the maximum number of files
   replicated (moved by CRS) per cycle of that process (again, dependent
   upon the bandwidth of the agent computer).

- Files placed in <agent>\<drive>\bill.event\18\repl remain there until the

   agent has enough bandwidth to use CRS to move them to:

         <event collector>\<drive>\bill.event\18\repl\import

Version           : 1.00
Platform          : WINDOWS
Issue type        : kbhowto

Last Reviewed: February 22, 1999