03-09-2009 10:49 AM
We are getting killed on bandwidth because the anti virus clients, about a thousand, are pulling a 48 mb update file from the parent server. Is this normal? I thought that the update files were normally around 2 mb.
We are using version 10.1.6.6000 if anyone has any thoughts.
03-11-2009 10:52 PM
Hi,
i guess even 2 MB which you have mentioned is on higher side, ofcourse it varies on daily basis ( based on threat discovered).
How are clients getting definition, if it is VDTM update the server ( parent server) with xdb rather than intelligent updater.
Did you run monitoring tool to come to this value 48 MB?
Pete!
04-21-2009 07:51 AM
08-04-2009 03:37 AM
08-08-2009 12:15 AM
U can modify/Create the following registry values.
HKLM\Soffware\Intel\LanDesk\Virusprotection6\
"UpdateClientsByNetOrSubnet" set the value to 1
"IpSubnetMask" set the value to ur subnet mask in hex (for 255.255.255.0 it is ffffff00)
(names are case sensitive)
This reduces one thread per subnet and traffic from one subnet will be less.
08-18-2009 03:33 AM
http://service1.symantec.com/support/ent-security.nsf/854fa02b4f5013678825731a007d06af/17ea35e0c69f22da88256c860061cfdd?OpenDocument
08-25-2009 11:56 AM
There is another possible tuning: Increase of the number of incremental updates to clients
As default, SAV10 uses only 5 microdefs incremental virus definition file to deploy to its clients. Many times when U have >45MB files through network, is that the clients are outdated for more than 5 days. So you can expand its capability to get incremental updates to 20.
'How to change the number of virus definition (.vdb) files that a Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition server keeps'http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/ent-security.nsf/docid/2001120412343448?Open&seg=ent have applied both tunings (subnet + microdefs increase) but I still can't tell if they are effective. Does anybody dis these configs already and have results to share (and how to determine if they are effective)
ThanksI
Document ID: 2001120412343448
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03-16-2010 02:12 PM
We have the same issue, the clients downloaded 45-60MB definations to the folder C:\program files\commonshare\symantecshare\virusdef
I just cannot find a log on SEPM. I checked Moniotrs ---logs --system --cleitn activities but I just cannot see the size of download files.
Which files are really the download files in that folder?