Configuring VM manager for subcapacity reporting
If you use BigFix Inventory for subcapacity reporting purposes, perform additional configuration tasks to balance the workload of your VM Manager Tool.
About this task
Make sure that you define enough VM Manager Tool connections. Every VM Manager Tool should handle the workload and complete its tasks within the time that is determined by the pooling interval.
Procedure
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Set the value of _BESClient_ArchiveManager_MaxArchiveSize to at least 50
MB on the endpoint where the VM Manager Tool is installed. In
this way, you eliminate the risk of reaching the maximum size of files that can be uploaded to the
BigFix server during the configuration.
- Log in to the BigFix console.
- In the left navigation panel and, select Computers. Right-click the name of the appropriate computer, and click Edit Computer Settings.
- Edit the value of the _BESClient_ArchiveManager_MaxArchiveSize parameter to increase the maximum archive size.
Note: Starting from application update 9.2.14, you can check on the Computer Support Data panel whether the value of _BESClient_ArchiveManager_MaxArchiveSize is exceeded. For more information, see: Troubleshooting problems with computers. -
Set the value of pooling interval to 30 minutes or less. It is a mandatory setting if you use
BigFix Inventory to count subcapacity.
- For the central VM Manager Tool, go to and set the value of vmm_pooling_time_intervalparameter.
- For distributed VM Manager Tool, go to the following
directory and set the value of the vmm_pooling_time_interval parameter in the
vmmmainconf.properties file.
- BESClient/LMT/VMMAN/config/
- BESClient\LMT\VMMAN\config
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To check whether you defined enough VM Manager Tool
connections, perform the following steps.
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After you complete the configuration of VM Manager Tool
connections, results are stored in the following directory. To sent the results to the BigFix server, run the Schedule VM Manager Tool
Scan Results Upload task.
- BESClient/LMT/VMMAN/upload
- BESClient\LMT\VMMAN\upload
You can run Force VM Manager Tool Scan Results Upload to upload the result files to the BigFix server faster.
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When the task completes, the result file or files are stored in the following directory. Result
files names follow the specific naming convention:
1323215_<number>_vmman.tar.gz
.- BESClient/LMT/VMMAN/
- BESClient\LMT\VMMAN\
Results
- Your VM manager configuration is complete. If at any point your previously configured VM Manager Tool stops collecting data, go to the following directory.
- BESClient/LMT/VMMAN/logs
- BESClient\LMT\VMMAN\logs
"[WARNING] Data collection from some defined vm managers did not finish within defined pooling interval 30. Please consider increasing the vmm_pooling_time_interval setting in vmmmainconf.properties file or divide your vm manager connections to more VM Manager Tools.
- You can check whether _BESClient_ArchiveManager_MaxArchiveSize is exceeded by checking the Software Scan Status analysis. The Is archive size exceeded? column provides the information for computers with VM Manager Tool installed.