So thanks to Romney and others at IBM, we have this now tuned to wake up every thirty minutes. These are the parms needed:
_BESClient_Resource_PowerSaveEnable to 1 and _BESClient_Resource_PowerSaveTimeout0 to 30 Basically it's telling BigFix our servers are laptops and shouldn't be woken up so often to avoid draining their batteries :) So its way less that even .5% now. Took our dev environment from 8 IFLs worth down to <20% of 1. Marcy -----Original Message----- From: Cortes, Marcy D. Sent: Friday, June 2, 2017 12:36 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: RE: Anyone running IBM BigFix client on z? Thanks Shannon and Harley. I'll pass this onto our big fix people! Good to know it can be beaten into better behavior (although that should be the default out of the box !) -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Collinson.Shannon Sent: Friday, June 2, 2017 12:31 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] Anyone running IBM BigFix client on z? We are too. According to my BigFix guy, he created a "group and site with auto-membership based on the OS-name" that throttled the cpu the clients are allowed to use (.5% in our case--looks like Harley's folk let them have a little more) and restricted gathering the inventory to what we determined was the off-hours (think it turns out to be 5-6 in the morning). So any new s390x server that comes online with the bigfix client installed and checks in to the hub would get those settings automatically. Does that help any? It's kinda greek to me, but I'm hoping it'll make sense to anyone familiar with bigfix customization. I do know that since we did it, we haven't had any issues. Shannon Collinson (SunTrust Bank) -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Harley Linker Sent: Friday, June 02, 2017 2:13 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Anyone running IBM BigFix client on z? I am. The team that manages BigFix on the x86 server tweaked a setting so that it didn't check the z servers quite as often. The change they made, which they didn't tell me what it was, reduced the CPU percentage to .7 per server. Harley -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU] On Behalf Of Marcy Cortes Sent: Friday, June 02, 2017 12:54 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Anyone running IBM BigFix client on z? aka BESClient We're seeing 1-2% cpu per guest. While that's not a big deal on a x86 standalone box, it's a big deal on a box with 400 servers on it. Hoping it's tunable... Marcy This message may contain confidential and/or privileged information. If you are not the addressee or authorized to receive this for the addressee, you must not use, copy, disclose, or take any action based on this message or any information herein. If you have received this message in error, please advise the sender immediately by reply e-mail and delete this message. Thank you for your cooperation. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@vm.marist.edu with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/ © 2017 Ensono, LP. All rights reserved. Ensono is a trademark of Ensono, LP. The information contained in this communication is confidential, is intended only for the use of the recipient named above, and may be legally privileged. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please resend this communication to the sender and delete the original message or any copy of it from your computer system. LEGAL DISCLAIMER The information transmitted is intended solely for the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of or taking action in reliance upon this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you have received this email in error please contact the sender and delete the material from any computer. By replying to this e-mail, you consent to SunTrust's monitoring activities of all communication that occurs on SunTrust's systems. SunTrust is a federally registered service mark of SunTrust Banks, Inc. [ST:XCL]