Tips For Installing SEP In A Low Bandwidth Environment

1) Keep the Heart Beat intervals to 1 hour and randomize it for 5 Minute .Also keep it in pull mode (Clients----> < The group which the clients reside>---->Policies (Right side)--- >Communication Settings)
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  2)Keep the liveupdate frequency as daily and schedule it..Symantec will release multiple updates in a day. So if we select a low frequency it will download more revisions and will cause more load on the network.(Admin ---->Servers--->local site---->edit site properties---->liveupdate )
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3)Use GUP for the virus definition Distribution .Ensure that you are using MR4 or later (Both in SEPM and in all the clients.).RU5 is recommendable
 Symantec Endpoint Protection 11.0 Group Update Provider (GUP) 

4)Enable bandwidth throttling for the GUP

How to configure GUP bandwidth throttling in Symantec Endpoint Protection 11.0 MR4?
  For RU5 you can do this in the GUI of SEPM.(LU policy --->server settings--->Group update provider). Refer the below figures .

 

Then assign it to the groups.

5)Update the Installation Package before installing the SEP client .This will reduce the initial download update size.
How to deploy the Symantec Endpoint Protection (SEP) client Release Update 5 or later with current virus definitions and intrusion prevention signatures.

 
 6)Keep the no. of revision as 30.It will ensure that if a PC is connecting at least once in a 30 days also it will download only delta updates.(If  a client is not connecting to SEPM Day by day the delta size will go up). Refer the below figure.

 
 7)If you want you can control the bandwidth of SEPM, But be careful while doing this because it may affect the clients communication badly.
 Adjust the maximum bandwidth setting in IIS to a value that is less than the slowest WAN connection.

 Configure IIS Performance Options:

Click Start, point to Administrative Tools, then click Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager.
Click to expand Server Name, then click to expand Web Sites.
Right-click the web site that is hosting the Endpoint Protection Manager content (either Default Web Site or Symantec Web Server), then click Properties.
Click the Performance tab.

 Limit bandwidth usage in one of two ways:

i)Adjust Bandwidth throttling.

Click to select the Limit the network bandwidth available to this Web site check-box.
Adjust the Maximum bandwidth setting to total less than the slowest network link.
Click Apply to save changes.

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ii)Modify the total number of web site connections:

Click Connections limited to.
Adjust the total number of connections allowed to this website to alleviate bandwidth usage issues while still maintaining functionality.
Click Apply to save changes.

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Note: when setting max connections for the site make sure to include enough connections to allow the manager to function as well (The SEPM- Console uses 3 connections when open).

Note: If the SEPM is installed to the default web site it is possible that connectivity to other content within that site will become unavailable until a connection is released for use.
 

8) If you are having more clients in remote location and you do not want to mange centrally, Install individual SEPMs in each location and configure one central LUA point the SEPMs to download the updates
Installation and configuration of LUA
Installing and configuring LiveUpdate Administrator 2.x
For pointing to LUA refer below figures

For more information regarding the bandwidth usage of a client refer below article.
How much bandwidth is used by a SEP Client in One day ?

9)f you want to manage the policies centrally  do as follows
How to Perform Offline Replication between 2 Remote Sites when normal replication is failing due to Bandwidth Issues.
and configure one central LUA point the SEPMs to download the updates

Make the following changes in the replication partner properties after doing the replication

Uncheck the logs, Content and Client packages replication. Schedule the replication time to off business hours. Refer the below figure.

For pointing to LUA refer below figures


For more information regarding the bandwidth usage of a client refer below article.

How much bandwidth is used by a SEP Client in One day ?

Note: Minimize the number of replication partners to reduce the complexity...