While I’m waiting for support to get back to me I figured I’d see if anyone here has seen this.
We updated our BigFix server to 8.0.627 on Tuesday. We hadn’t gone to the initial version 8 release so we went straight from the last version of 7 to this version of 8. Last night I updated the relays. Since then we are noticing our bandwidth throttling doesn’t appear to be working. I’m honestly not sure if it was ok after the server upgrade but before the relay upgrade. We hadn’t really pushed out anything in that period before the relays got upgraded.
I have even set the bandwidth limits again, and even made them much lower, and it doesn’t seem to be doing any good.
Also, it seems that any time we take an action, even if it is just starting a service or something, the server bandwidth spikes. What is even more odd is we are watching the headend bandwidth for our remote sites, but it happens even if I am taking an action against a machine locally at out HQ building. I don’t understand why that would be sending anything out to the sites.
Has anyone else been having problems with bandwidth throttling in version 8?
Has this been addressed yet? I am using version 8.1.551.0 and was going to implement:
_BESGather_Download_LimitBytesPerSecond
BigFix Gather can “throttle” the download speed by limiting the amount of bytes it downloads per second. This setting is especially effective if network bandwidth is a concern (such as with a dial-up connection). When this setting is used on the BigFix Relay, the BigFix Relay will limit its download speed when downloading from the BigFix Server or parent BigFix Relay. As of BigFix 5.0, this setting throttles all downloading traffic.
•Default Value: 0 (disabled)
•Setting Type: Numeric (bytes/sec)
•Value Range: 0-4,294,967,296 (Set to 0 to disable download throttling and use the maximum possible bandwidth)
"from you inquiring about the configuration setting “_BESGather_Download_LimitBytesPerSecond” . This configuration setting does still work for TEM/Bigfix Server Version 8.1.551.0.
The following URL link should give you the information you need on limiting the number of bytes per second that can be downloaded.
The information that might be of importance for you is the following. Below that are some screen shots that might be of help.
“How to Set a Configuration Setting”
Some of the Configuration Settings listed on this page are commonly used and have had Tasks created in the BigFix Support site to assist in using the Configuration Settings correctly and easily (BigFix 5.0 and above). If such a Task exists it will be indicated in the ‘Task Available’ field below and you should try to use the Task instead of manually creating the Configuration Setting. If no task exists please follow these steps to set a Configuration Setting:
Open the BigFix Console and go to Computer tab
Select the computer(s) that you would like to apply the BigFix Configuration Settings to (Note: To change a configuration setting for the BigFix Server or the BigFix Relays using this mechanism, you must select the computer(s) that have the BigFix Server or BigFix Relays currently installed.)
Right Click on the computer(s) and choose the Edit Settings option
Create a Custom Setting using a Name and Value from the configuration table below.
Click OK to send out the configuration setting, which will take effect immediately "