Before committing your network to a large distribution job, run a test
job to check for performance issues. Then you can adjust various settings to reach optimal network performance
levels.
To run a job:
- From the Norton System Center Console, choose the Job node to view all
existing jobs.
- Right-click the job in the result pane to open the context menu.
- Choose Start Job.
When you start a job, a confirmation dialog box appears that includes
a Do Not Distribute Agents To Targets check box. When this box is not checked, the Norton System Center Console
tests each target NT machine at the beginning of a distribution to find out if Norton Agent is installed on the
target and attempts to install it if necessary. If you have already installed Norton Agent on target machines,
check this option to skip the test and reduce network traffic.
To run a test job:
- Test with a job that includes no more than 50 machines. Gradually scale
the number of machines up in subsequent tests until you reach the optimum level for your organization. For various
reasons, a job may fail on some machines. Before you take the time to physically inspect them, set the Timeout
Before A Job Is Failed For A Target to a greater number of minutes.
- Rerun the job for failed machines only.
- If the job continues to fail on some machines, inspect the failed machines
manually.
Possible reasons that a job continues to fail:
- The machine is turned off.
- The machine has a physical network connection problem, which may be
either a hardware or software problem. For software issues, check your protocol properties and name resolution
services.
- The Norton Agent has not been installed to the machine.
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