Endpoint Protection

Hi

I am new to the community and it has been great that most topics were of great help to me.

I have a  base of 2000 computers running on my Wan network and i felt that the Automatic updates were eating the bandwith since the updates size were very high (45 - 65mb)

My friend suggested to do a incremental update to client or the delta update

I have a Symantec antivirus version 10.1.6.x  with 3 child servers

Can some one guide me with the delta updates to reduce my network bottle neck and seemless updates

SHiva

Hi Shiv

The update that is passed to the clients fom the srever is an Incremental delta update

Are all these 2000 laptops or they are diffrent site?

All the cleints report to the primary server or they are distributed among the 3 servers?

also if possible you can Install SEP 11 and configure GUP , this will minimize the bandwidth alot

Run with the 1 master/primary (default, only way) and make them all parent servers.
Then allow the clients to seek any parent server, don't assign, use roaming and use (been a while, forgive me!) the option that allows the client to use the parent that responds first, or even load balancing. This will spread the clients among the 3 parent servers.
They won't all update at the same time that way - it will vary. And if the clients are online most of the time, they will be fairly current and will get only the deltas anyway. Only if they have been offline a while will they need more - or the full definitions.
SAV's update methods are VERY effecient! When I was at PFG, the network team insisted on "sniffing" ALL apps that touched any desktop or notebook image. SAV was tested and found to be among the least intrusive of any app that used the network. they couldn't believe how, for the amount of "apparent traffic" it looked like was going, how little load was actually placed on the network.
But using all 3 servers as parents (running SAV server version on them) and using roaming with load balancing, etc. - the load will be spread, clients will get updates spread out and not all at once.
SAV 7.5 through 10.xx were very effecient, IMO, at network traffic and there were many good tools, roaming among my favorite!

Thanks for the value addition

My Q to Prachand-- How do i confirm that incremental backup is happening ?My symantec technical team had sent a mail that the full updates happen everyday to clients

vd2e5012.xdb  65.9 MB  on Sav server



Secondly i have  a mix and match of desktops and laptops all conected over MPLS and RF pan india

I am planning to install SEP on  a seperate server ,any docs to do a clean push to Sav Clients silently??

vd2e5012.xdb  65.9 MB  on Sav server :---> its full update on sav server,however client will be incremental updates

you can refer the article ...

http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/ent-security.nsf/docid/2005072910171148