Estimate Monthly Transactions

Install the Ipswitch Analytics Server on a machine that has the hardware capacity to properly handle the number of transactions that occur on your MOVEit Transfer and MOVEit Automation systems. If you cannot estimate the number of monthly transactions, follow the instructions below to calculate

• The average MOVEit Transfer transactions per month, and
• The average MOVEit Automation transactions per month.

Add the two together, and then determine whether you have enough hard disk space to retain all of your data for 15 months.

Note: Complete the steps below for only the type of MOVEit servers on your system.

MOVEit Transfer:

1. Select a MOVEit Transfer server that is representative of a typical MOVEit Transfer server on your system.

   Note: If you think the number of transfers varies widely on different MOVEit Transfer servers in your system, perform steps 2-3 for every MOVEit Transfer server. Do not complete step 5; instead, sum the average number of transactions from each MOVEit Transfer server and then divide by the total number of MOVEit Transfer servers.

2. Sign in as sysadmin and create the following report to estimate that server's average transfers per month:
   • Report Category: File Transfer
   • Report Type: By Month
   • Start/End Date: Select the prior 12 months if available, or as many months as possible within the last year.
3. Find the Total transfers per report time period by calculating the following: (Total number of Uploads x 2) + Total number of Downloads.
4. Find the Average number of transfers per month for this MOVEit Transfer server by calculating the following: Total transfers per report time period number (calculated in step 3) / Number of months in the report.
5. Find the Estimated Monthly MOVEit Transfer transactions by calculating the following: Average number of transfers per month x Number of MOVEit Transfer servers in your system.

Note: Logins, logouts, and maintenance actions can be added as a factor when determining impact on the system but do not need to be calculated.

MOVEit Automation:

1. Select a MOVEit Automation server that is representative of a typical MOVEit Automation server on your system.
2. Select View > Reports.
3. For Display, select File/Folder Activity.
4. Click Edit Filter.
5. On the File/Folder Activity tab, select the following:
   • Status is: Failure and Success
   • Action is: Upload, Download and Process
   • Display any file/folder activity entries with errors, regardless of action
6. On the Date/Time tab, select Continuous date/time range and select the following:
   • Start Date: Enter a date 12 months prior to today.
   • End Date: Enter today's date.
7. On the Limit tab, limit results to the 10,000 Newest.
8. Click OK to run the report. The total number of transactions displays at the bottom right. If the total number of transactions shows 10000, select the Large system size. Otherwise, find the average number of MOVEit Automation transactions by calculating the following: Total number of transactions x Number of MOVEit Automation servers on your system.