Is there a way to restrict or manage how many simultaneous connections Patch Manager can make when running an inventory ?
The objective is to spread the network load.
Thanks.
Patch Manager will only open up to 32 or so concurrent connections per automation server (by default). You can affect this number by modifying the Maximum Worker Processes and the Maximum Thread Pool Size Per Worker Process.
These settings can be located with the following steps:
If you're looking to split up the work between multiple servers you can also consider adding an additional automation server to your deployment. Here's an article that has some very detailed information on this role.
">aLTeReGo put together this informative post which should provide you with the information you need to limit port usage for WMI calls.
Yes I read that article and it is quite useful. But what I was hoping for was more along the lines of a limit on the concurrent activity from the inventory task. How does the inventory task work, does it try to query all machines at once, using all connections available? Or are there configurable parameters ?
If there is no way to configure this then I guess I can spread the activity by making a number of management groups and having a seperate inventory task for each group.
Fantastic. This is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks.
