Environment
Novell ZENworks 10 Configuration Management with Support Pack 1 - 10.1 Content
Situation
Content Replication takes several days to complete
Very large amounts of data are being replicated
Resolution
This is fixed in version 10.2.1 - see KB 7003766 "ZENworks 10 Configuration Management 10.2.1 - update information and list of fixes" which can be found at https://www.novell.com/support
Note also in 10.3 and later, CDPDownloadLimit is no longer used as scheduling can now be done for satellite servers.
Additional Information
Be aware that Throttling the Content Replication Rate https://www.novell.com/documentation/zcm10/zcm10_system_admin/data/bafdqz7.html can also severely limit the amount of data that can be replicated in a given period - the number is in kilobytes per second
Further optimization can be configured by adding the following to the registry:
Further optimization can be configured by adding the following to the registry:
On Windows: String value 10.3 and later HKLM\SOFTWARE\Novell\ZCM, CDPWebCallWaitTimeout in milliseconds, default is 45000.
On Linux: Modify the /etc/opt/novell/zenworks/conf/xplatzmd.properties file, Line: “CDPWebCallWaitTimeout=xxxxâ€
On Windows: String value 10.3 and later HKLM\SOFTWARE\Novell\ZCM, CDPDownloadLimit, default is 50
On Linux: Modify the /etc/opt/novell/zenworks/conf/xplatzmd.properties file, Line: “CDPDownloadLimit=xxxâ€
The CDPWebCallWaitTimeout would be difficult to test unless the connection link could be slowed down so that the call takes longer than 30 seconds to complete / return. If it is set to 2 minutes, the client should wait that long for a response.
The CDPDownloadLimit would overwrite the default setting of 50 pieces of content per download thread. Ideally, it could be to 1000 or even 100000. Then when 'zac wake-cdp ' is run, it should attempt to download that much content.