Configuring bandwidth throttling on an Integrated Smart Scan Server

- Updated:
- 8 Sep 2017
- Product/Version:
- Worry-Free Business Security Standard/Advanced 7.0
- Worry-Free Business Security Standard/Advanced 8.0
- Worry-Free Business Security Standard/Advanced 9.0
- Worry-Free Business Security Standard/Advanced 9.5
- Platform:
- Windows 2003 Enterprise
- Windows 2003 Small Business Server
- Windows 2003 Small Business Server R2
- Windows 2003 Standard
- Windows 2008 Enterprise
- Windows 2008 Essential Business Server
- Windows 2008 Server R2
- Windows 2008 Small Business Server
- Windows 2008 Standard
- Windows 2011 Small Business Server Essentials
- Windows 2011 Small Business Server Standard

Summary

In Smart Protection Server 1.x and 2.0, the bandwidth throttling for Full download of bf.ptn is enabled by default. If bandwidth is not an issue, you can modify the default values to increase the number of current connections. Increasing the values will result in faster download for remote smart scan clients.

Details

To modify the bandwidth throttling values:

Stop the Trend Micro Smart Scan Server service.
Go to ..\Trend Micro \Security Server\PCCSRV\wss directory.
Open the ptngrowth.ini file.

Modify the values below:

MAX_UPDATE_CONNECTION=
UPDATE_WAIT_SECOND=

Note: The value can range from 0 to 2147483647.

To help you properly set the values above, use the following data as reference: 1000 online clients do 7MB full update.

NETWORK BANDWIDTH	100 Mbps, Throughput = 12 MB/s	10 Mbps, Throughput = 1.2 MB/s	512 Kbps, Throughput = 64 Kb/s
MAX_UPDATE_CONNECTION	5	1	1
UPDATE_WAIT_SECOND	15	20	60
When all 1000 updates will be finished	50 mins	5.5 hours	17 hours

Save and close the file.
Start the Trend Micro Smart Scan Server service.

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Category:

Configure; Troubleshoot; Deploy; Install

Solution Id:

1097329

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