BigFix Console Loading Version 8

Usage and Config Platform
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(imported topic written by murtasma91)

The load times and performance of the new console has been improved over the old version 7 console. Right now I’m testing moving the cache files to a network share for each of our console operators since we have 7 terminal servers. Having the cache on a mapped network share will allow console operators to use the same cache file with out having to rebuild their cache depending on which terminal server they get connected to (we have a lot of terminal servers since we have have over 250 operators).

It was recently asked to me

“Why does the LOADING SITES portion of the console load take so long?”

I believe this is because we have have 40 custom sites (one for each department using the BigFix service) as well as the individual operator sites (there are many). Would I be correct in this assumption? Also what exsactly is stored in the cache files? Is site information not stored there? Is that why it appears like that step of the loading process always takes about the same amount of time reguardless if you have cache files in your profile?

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(imported comment written by BenKus)

Hi murtasma,

I would be very scared about using a shared cache file… I wouldn’t actually expect it to work or to speed things up… but I guess if it works for you, then go crazy… :slight_smile:

I believe that the “loading sites” loads all the Fixlets and so the more Fixlets that you have, the longer this will take. I think we have spent the last few versions optimizing many parts of the console, but I don’t think we have done much in this area lately… I expect we will optimize this area soon since people are using more and more Fixlet sites these days and we want to encourage that…

Ben

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(imported comment written by murtasma91)

by shared cached I mean each operator has their own private share to store their cache files in.

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(imported comment written by ken@gracenote91)

Ben Kus

I believe that the “loading sites” loads all the Fixlets and so the more Fixlets that you have, the longer this will take. I think we have spent the last few versions optimizing many parts of the console, but I don’t think we have done much in this area lately… I expect we will optimize this area soon since people are using more and more Fixlet sites these days and we want to encourage that…

Ben

Yes… the loading sites delay is something that would wonderful to speed-up.