Hi,
Any expert out there who can advise me if here is a way to use BigFix managed properties to detect/track each computers downloading speed?
Do you wish to know downloading speeds from previous downloads or you want to initiate a download test?
speedtest(.)net has a CLI. You would have to investigate licensing requirements.
It would required you to run a two step process, A task to execute the CLI and dump the results into a reg key or text file, then create a property to read that reg key or text file.
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I don’t know if there is a built in property to do that but I like @D.Dean SpeedTest CLI idea. Here is another option Internet download speed test. That fixlet initiates a 25MB download speed test and you should be able to customize it to your needs. I have not used it so be sure to test it out.
Hi Orbiton,
yes i wish to know the download speed from previous download.
Hi Rickm19,
i cant do internet speed test as our system is a close system network.
Your local network or IT staff should be able to assist you with this by performing some monitoring and other tasks. You should ask them about it.
Due to a patching download load issue, I was in the same situation as before, and the network staff was able to track the exact download that was occurring against a particular computer once it was escalated.
Possibly you could use a fixlet/task to run a curl command against a url your endpoints have access to, be it internal or external, redirect the output to a file then use a property to ready the file. The following curl command returns just the download speed so if that was written to a file, that could accomplish what your are after.
curl -qfsS -w %{speed_download} -o C:\Temp\junk.bin --url https://curl.se/download/curl-8.4.0.tar.gz
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