Bandwidth throttling
Many network environments have limited bandwidth between certain geographic locations, between offices and home users using VPNs, and so forth. Deploying large Microsoft® patches (for example: the Windows 7 SP1 update is 537 MB!) can overwhelm limited bandwidth connections and cause bandwidth problems for certain users or applications.
To avoid issues related to bandwidth usage, BigFix uses the following mechanisms:
- Properly implemented and maintained Relay architecture
- Distributing patch deployments over time
- Applying bandwidth throttling configurations between components
You can configure the bandwidth throttling settings through tasks within the BES Support site. On
the console, click HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\BigFix\EnterpriseClient\Settings\Client
and
with a String [REG_SZ]
type of named value. The value is entered as a numeric; for
example, 500 bps is entered as 500.
For details about the related configuration settings, see Bandwidth throttling.