I've got 6300 machines connecting back to a single kbox, when I use all of the services it's causing major slowdowns... Each of my 30 remote locations have a 1gb backbone back to the main office where the kbox is located, bandwidth is not an issue for me. Replicas might work, but many of the remote location have no servers or hardware that I can dedicate as a replica.
Thanks for any thoughts!
Regarding remote location hardware, could you ship out some repurposed units to serve as replicas?
Have you ever considered a Dell hosted (in the cloud) kbox? Not sure if this would resolve the major slowdowns. - Jbr32 9 years ago
Depending on what you are doing with your KBox it would be interesting to analyze how you configured it. Also if it is a physical or virtual box. The virtual appliance has by default a tight hardware need (4GB RAM, 2 CPU cores) which is a bit small for a 6.3k environment.
Also the checkin settings, scripts etc are interesting.
Check the munin output (k1000/munin) for possible problems. (if you see, ok, at 12:00 when all my scripts are running, the box is slow you can decide to run some scripts at other times)
You easily can connect the K1000 database for reporting from remote (which means that the whole reporting is running outside the box)
https://support.software.dell.com/k1000-systems-management-appliance/kb/114992 - Nico_K 9 years ago