SMS: How Senders Interact w/ Inactive or Congested Sites and Retrying Jobs (214485)
The information in this article applies to:
- Microsoft Systems Management Server 1.2
This article was previously published under Q214485 SUMMARY
In situations where bandwidth is on a normal basis completely consumed by Systems Management Server (SMS) Sender activity:
If one or more Sites that a Sender is targeted to becomes inactive or unreachable for any reason, other Sites that are functional that are also targeted by the same Sender can be severely impacted causing their Jobs to Fail or go into Retrying. Typically, Senders configured to use RAS over a slow modem or using a congested WAN link is where this problem occurs. The reason for this behavior is when Jobs are targeted at Sites that are inactive or down, more bandwidth is consumed by these attempts at 'Retrying' the down Site. The Job, Scheduler, and Sender 'Retry' attempts to the inactive Site consume more time (bandwidth) retrying than if the original Job had completed successfully (assuming the original job was fairly small). This problem can be exaggerated by limiting the (schedule) availability of a senders outbox.
Modification Type: | Minor | Last Reviewed: | 6/14/2005 |
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Keywords: | kbinfo kbSMSSender KB214485 |
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