WAN acceleration of Altiris traffic

I know of two settings you could use. Both are for Deployment Solutions.

For PXE Server updating images there is a setting you could set to limit the bandwidth.  Launch PXe COnfiguration Utility, Select the PXE Server tab. Set a checkmark in the "Limit bandwidth" and set the KBs you want.

RDeploy.exe I believe has similar functionality so try executing rdeploy.exe -? and see what parameter is needed.

--nelson

There are many settings for different solutions that could be misconfigured, which could be causing the congestion.

A few NS questions for your customer would be the following:

Does the site/sites have a package server? 

Raise the update intervals. What is the inventory schedules?

Is bandwidth throttling and compression enabled?

Multicast

There are other settings for the Deployment Server that could be generating the traffic.

As the 2 previous post do show, Altiris traffic can be of a wide variety. Depending on the installed solutions and configuration.

What traffic is taking up most of the bandwidth? Package downloads, image deployments, or http traffic?

Each of these entry could have many causes but all have bandwidth reduction / control options.

I have worked with many banks and they often have small bandwidth links to hundreds or thousands of branches. The Altiris traffic is well behaved because bandwidth management policies are in place and the design was made to cater for these needs, so we can do Patch MAnagement, Inventory and OS deployments on all sites with minimal WAN traffic.