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| What are InSight's expected disk, processor and LAN utilization? |
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Generally, it is expected that customers will set up InSight in a way that it uses negligible amounts of these resources. In an expected typical configuration where InSight’s terminal agent is tracking some device histories but these histories are not being kept on the controller, the terminal agent is expected to run on the oldest legacy hardware (8Mhz 80286 in a 4683) without noticeable effect. Almost no terminal/controller communications takes place between the terminal and controller agents unless monitoring is enabled. With monitoring enabled, there is still only a very small amount of loop/lan traffic. InSight’s terminal agent and device message flow is based on the compression/gathering techniques that QVS developed for its TC product. TC was proven to run 50 general merchandise 4683 lanes running on a 38 Kbps store loop at peak season.
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