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  • 1.  Altiris Agent Bandwidth Throttling

    Posted Aug 26, 2010 11:58 AM
    I'm using Altiris 6 and I was wondering if there was a way to reset the Bandwidth Throttling inside the agents after they have been turned off.  Our technicians sometimes turn off the throttling to download items fast to a computer that hasn't been connected to the network in a while or has been on a slow connection.  They then forget to re-enable that throttling so we have PCs using too much bandwidth.  Is there a policy that I can set from the Console that re-enables the Bandwidth control after it has been disabled for a certain period of time, or something similar?


  • 2.  RE: Altiris Agent Bandwidth Throttling

    Posted Aug 26, 2010 12:26 PM
    it should be reset the next time the agent checks back in (automatically).


  • 3.  RE: Altiris Agent Bandwidth Throttling

    Posted Aug 26, 2010 12:36 PM
    They don't seem to be doing that.  Is there a kb article on an known issue?


  • 4.  RE: Altiris Agent Bandwidth Throttling
    Best Answer

    Posted Aug 26, 2010 05:52 PM
    Neither a update config or even an agent restart sets the system back. It might be possible to run a script to reenable this setting, but I'm not sure of the exact values.
    I found a similar script in regards to agent communication blockout. We would need to find the correct fields to populate for the bandwidth throttling. You could use it as a run script task in Task Server or DS.

    Example (don't use this)
    'vbscript
    dim client
    set client = wscript.createobject ( "Altiris.AeXNSClient" )
    ignoreBlockouts = 1 
    client.UpdatePolicies ignoreBlockouts


  • 5.  RE: Altiris Agent Bandwidth Throttling

    Posted Aug 26, 2010 06:02 PM
    That was what I was pushing towards actually.  Write a quick script that runs nightly and enables the bandwidth control.  Thanks for the thought.