(imported topic written by bharms91)
I know I can throttle communications between servers, relays, and clients. How can I schedule or limit the big fix server from downloading patches from the Internet? There doesn’t seem to be an option for this or I’ve just missed it.
(imported comment written by BenKus)
Hi bharms,
There is not a capability to tell the server not to download files it needs from the Internet (without some drastic configurations).
Is this an issue for you? I don’t think I have heard many concerns from customers about this historically…
Ben
(imported comment written by cormaccassidy91)
Hi there,
Are there any plans on getting this setting implemented. I am in an enviroment where the download is affecting our production traffic, and where getting a Qos Policy implemented is nigh on impossible.
Thanks,
Cormac
Hi bharms,
There is not a capability to tell the server not to download files it needs from the Internet (without some drastic >configurations).
Is this an issue for you? I don’t think I have heard many concerns from customers about this historically…
Ben
(imported comment written by BenKus)
The way our bandwidth throttling works is that our agents and relay/server cooperate. The agent basically says: “give me the next chunk of data, but do it at this rate to respect my bandwidth throttling setting”. This works great inside of BigFix components, but we can’t use the same technique on external servers.
I will need to do some research to figure out if there was some general purpose way to do HTTP throttling for any random server on the Internet, but I don’t think so…
I am surprised this came up twice recently… In the last 5 years, I don’t think we have heard this was an issue since the server is only one computer… Just to confirm, you guys are saying that the BigFix Server downloading patches from the Internet is causing issues? Wouldn’t that mean that any user or computer in your company that could download files of 1-100 MB would cause you the same issues?
Ben