Is there a way to detect computer downloading speed using managed properties?

[greeks516]

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?

[orbiton]

Do you wish to know downloading speeds from previous downloads or you want to initiate a download test?

[D.Dean]

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.

[Rickm19]

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.

[greeks516]

Hi Orbiton,

yes i wish to know the download speed from previous download.

[greeks516]

Hi Rickm19,

i cant do internet speed test as our system is a close system network.

[vk.khurava]

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.

[SLB]

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