How Stagger would work on large deployments..?

(imported topic written by dbhambri)

We are planning to deploy a 460 MB package to about 16000 machines. We want the deployment to send the package 1000 per week.

Can someone please suggest what time we put in stagger option. Basically would like to understand how stagger works.

I have BigFix version 8.2 installed. We have a good network link.

Thanks in advance!

(imported comment written by dbhambri)

Can someone please suggest on this?

Thanks.

(imported comment written by MattBoyd)

Without knowing much about your network topology, it’s hard to give you a good answer. The answer really depends on your network topology and TEM relay configuration. It would help if you could answer these questions:

How many locations are those 16k workstations spread across?

What kind of network connectivity do you have between the sites?

How many relays do you have, and where are they located in your network topology?

Do you have relays at each site?

If you have a fairly robust relay infrastructure, with relays at each site and less than 1000 clients per relay, and good connectivity between relays and clients, you should be able to deploy the 460 MB task staggered over a day (or maybe even less). If you have many clients connected to relays across a WAN, that number will probably be larger. Whether or not you’re using dynamic bandwidth throttling will also be a factor.

You might also want to deploy a smaller subset of the 16k machines (200? 500?) spread across multiple sites first to get a better “feel” for what your infrastructure can handle.

(imported comment written by MattBoyd)

Also, it is my understanding that the stagger feature works by assigning each targeted client a random time between 0 and x to wait before running the task (where x is the stagger time specified).

(imported comment written by dbhambri)

Thanks all for your inputs.

Hi Matt,

See my response below :

How many locations are those 16k workstations spread across?

++We have more than 90 locations.++

What kind of network connectivity do you have between the sites?

We have fairly good connectivity.

How many relays do you have, and where are they located in your network topology?

Generelly we have 1 relay catering each site however few small locations being catered by Relays located in another site.

Do you have relays at each site?

As mentioned above…