(imported topic written by BenKus)
Hi everybody,
We often are making things that don’t quite make it into the final product… But we thought we would make some of these available as the “BigFix Labs”:
http://support.bigfix.com/labs/
Note that these aren’t officially supported, but they hopefully are useful to use or build on…
Ben
(imported comment written by SystemAdmin)
The lab has some interesting options. I’ve enjoyed experimenting with them.
The Network Maps dashboard is very interesting, but extremely slow. Could it be related to the the 1100+ relays that we have?
It actually crashed the console with this information:
Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: BESConsole.exe
Application Version: 7.2.1.357
Application Timestamp: 4978ef03
Fault Module Name: Flash10b.ocx
Fault Module Version: 10.0.22.87
Fault Module Timestamp: 4987a6c3
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 001ea4ab
OS Version: 6.0.6000.2.0.0.256.6
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: 0924
Additional Information 2: 9a80d4b9cbd216cbe3164bf9e971db9a
Additional Information 3: 7a4c
Additional Information 4: 884e9a6e6a804dee19a96f51c780fe7a
Any suggestions?
(imported comment written by chris_lindsay91)
Hi Jon,
I’m the developer on BigFix Asset Network Maps, and yes, your 1100+ relays is probably the cause. Each relay is given its own node in the graph, and 1100 nodes is pushing the capabilities of the dashboard, even before you consider all the subnet nodes that must be in the graph as well.
We meant to post some limitations on the sizes of deployments that the dashboard would work for, but we seem to have forgotten to do that. Unfortunately, your deployment would probably not be supported.
Sorry about that!
Chris
(imported comment written by SystemAdmin)
Could the tool be adapted to take large deployments into consideration? It is useful and interesting data. It would be a shame to not be able to take advantage of it.
Could you have different settings for small, medium, and large organizations that, for example, varied the refresh rate and/or other calculations to accommodate different architectures?
(imported comment written by chris_lindsay91)
Jon,
It’s certainly something we want to do in the future, and I’m glad to hear you see value in the data. Unfortunately, for this dashboard there’s no easy fix for the problem of scalability.
That said, we’re in the process of determining the future of the BigFix Asset Network Maps dashboard, and improving the scalability has been a central point of discussion. I can’t make any guarantees about whether we’ll be able to support your deployment in the future, but it’s very helpful to know that there’s interest in getting the dashboard working at that size.
Chris
(imported comment written by StacyLee)
IS the bigfix asset network maps working?
I downloaded and added it to my site but has been sitting at the Gathering BigFix Asset Network Maps. Waiting for server to begin Gather for a long time…
(imported comment written by BenKus)
Hey Stacy,
It seems to work for me… Any proxy or other issues on your server lately?
Ben
