According to the documentation behind the Advanced Settings this should:
Limit the maximum number of clients the BES Relay will allow to register. Once the limit is reached, connections will be rejected.
So in testing: I limited one of my relays down to 10, I would expect that when looking at the Analysis: BES Relay Status, and viewing By BES Client’s Parent Relay, it to be no more then 10. I have also, set the _Enterprise Server_ClientRegister_MaxHopEstimateLimit to 15, on the same Relay. I would expect that it would be an AND seperating this not an OR… but I am seeing 20 machines connecting to this relay, all with a recent last Reported time.
Our objective is to limit the number of Client connecting to the Relay to around 3000, but allow the clients to remain in an automatic mode. I’m using a much smaller number in my example as I’m testing this in Development and only have a limited number of clients but the logic should be solid.
When this option is set, the BES Relay will reject clients from registering once it meets its max count. Registration occurs every 6 hours by default (but it can be changed up to 24 hours).
Consider that you have 100 active clients reporting to a BES Relay and then you set this setting to 10, you should see that the number of BES Clients slowly decreases to 10 over the next 6-24 hours (depending on your registration interval).