RE: does SMS distribution support multicast?
- From: Bruno <Bruno@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2007 00:42:00 -0800
Hi,
For your information, I am not using any third party product in my
environment (from 1e or others), I just had a look at them (after all, there
are very few third party products for SMS - not enough I would say).
"Nick SMS Administrator - Detroit, Mi" wrote:
I think Bruno works for 1E. He recommends that solution all the time..
Here's a cheaper option for you to consider. A DP can be a windows XP
machine; however, since you cannot install IIS 6.0 (earliest BITS support),
you cannot transfer your packages using BITS, but you can using SMB.
Set up a share on a client in the network you'd like to advertise packages
to. Setup a "Server Share" in sms to point to that share. Distribute your
packages to that computer over the weekend or on the evenings where
utilization can spike. Then protect the DP so that only people from that
subnet can use it and set your advertisement to only use local DPs to find
software.
I've set this up in a lab with a 144Kbps connection to the Central Site. It
works great as long as your SMB transfer doesn't get interrupted AND you have
enough time to transfer your packages to that DP. If it gets interrupted
though, it'll have to start the transfer all over.
To work around the BITS problem of getting it to the DP in the first place,
try distributing the package initially to one machine and have it download.
Then since you've transferred the package to a client using BITS, you can set
that as the source for a new package and only copy that new package to the DP
in the site where you want it to.
Sounds confusing, so let me know if I am not clear.
"Bruno" wrote:
Hi
there is no feature in SMS by default, but you can have a look at 1E site
that provides a branch nomad tool that would allow you to do this.
A local workstation or server can be used to transfer the package and deploy
to other machines via Multicast. It might not be what you were thinking about
(sending straight to client machines via multicast) but could help. However
pay attention also to Soft / Hard inventories that might also take some
bandwith.
Hope it helps
Bruno
"kim_chi" wrote:
We have a remote office which has one hundred of client systems that managed
by SMS server at the main office over a 5MB WAN. But the distribution of SMS
packages will take up almost all the network traffics and interrupt other
applications.
As it is hard for us to put a DP server at the remote office, just wonder if
SMS server could support multicast so that not all access to the SMS server
from remote clients will transfer thru the WAN.
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