Getting throughput of 0.5 transactions/per second for a network Element
For a certain requirement wherein transactions to a particular device need to be throttled to 0.5 transactions/per second, I'm trying to set a throughput of 0.5 transactions/sec on the NE defined within the service model, but it seems ASAP doesn't allow decimal-numbers here. I tried doing so from Service Studio(SCE) as well as directly at SARM DB(tbl_ne_config) but the entry of '0.5' turns to '1' on doing a SAVE.
Is there a known way to do this?
As a workaround, I tried to modify the THROUGHPUT column on tbl_ne_config table in SARM DB to accept decimal values(through SQLPLUS),restarted ASAP,inserted the new value as '0.5' and it retained this value even after doing a COMMIT. I fired orders and the throtling seemed to work, but I'm not sure if tweaking around SARM DB tables is a good idea.