Traffic Issues with Forefront client talking to server
- I currently have an environment that has about 3000 clients deployed North America wide and talking to 1 server. I am getting reports from my networking team the like message below
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It is generating the most traffic, three times more than the next highest contributor for that collection period. It is communicating with workstations all over North America, not just the remote wsus servers. It is communicating with hosts that do not typically reside in AH, as well.
In about 37 seconds time, Forefront server sent about 9 megs of data to the nonQoS router.
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My questions are is what level of traffic should i expect from a Forefront environment, what kind of information is transmitted and has anyone else experienced this?
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hey,
I did not understand whether it is that you are talking about FSSMC or the Forefront for Exchange (since you mentioned you only have one server you manage - I don't see why you need FSSMC besides reporting).
If you are talking about the FSSMC server, the traffic you can expect from it is while running any scheduled job that distributes templates/defintions/settings or collects logs.the amount of data on those connections depends on the timing of the job (in case of defintions - if all engines have new defintions - it is possible that the update size will grow above the size your mentioned) and the amount of traffic going through your exchange server server that causes FSE logs to grow.
If you are talking on the exchange server, well I guess this one is obvious... traffic results from e-mail coming in and out and probably has nothing to do with the forefront on the server... :-)
hope this answers your questions...
