Client Retries; Recommendations; Section C.3, "Client Retries; Section C.4, "Recommendations - Novell ZENWORKS 10 CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT SP3 - SYSTEM PLANNING-DEPLOYMENT-BEST PRACTICES GUIDE 10.3 30-03-2010 System Planning Manual

C.3 CLIENT RETRIES
There are three client settings exposed in ZENworks Control Center (accessed by clicking
Configuration > Device Management > ZENworks Agent):
Number of Retries: Refers to the maximum number of retries a device attempts.
Initial Wait Time (in seconds): Refers to the initial wait time between retries. All subsequent waits
increment by 1 second.
Max wait time: Refers to the maximum time the device waits between retries.
By default, in ZENworks 10 Configuration Management, the settings were 15/4/16 for the above
parameters. The default settings in ZENworks Configuration Management 10.2 are 20/10/20. For
the majority of the testing, retries were set at 60/30/60. A server was never marked as "bad" and all
content was delivered.
No degradation of performance at the client was observed when the retries were set high.
C.4 Recommendations
Novell recommends keeping the Java memory allocations at the default. When Novell
introduces a 64-bit JVM into ZENworks Configuration Management, these recommendations
might be revised.
Novell recommends keeping the HTTPS threads at the default of 200. HTTP threads can be
increased up to 350 without seeing performance degradation. By increasing threads, client
retries can be reduced while keeping the overall execution time the same.
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