We have a SEPM (ver. 12.1.4104.4130) at our corporate headquarters. We have 13 branch offices on their own subnets. Each location is represented in our SEPM as their own group. Each branch office has a branch server that is designated as a GUP for their group.
All of our SEP clients are at LEAST ver. 12.1.4013.4013. Most are 12.1.4100.4126. These are all Windows 7 64-bit workstations. There are approximately 12-20 worstations per branch office.
We are all connected through an MPLS network. Our branch offices only have T1 connections.
Occasionally, a client machine will pull updates from the SEPM here at the corporate office instead of the branch's GUP. This bogs down their branch's connection. I've enabled Maximum bandwidth usage in the Group Update Provider Settings of the group's live update policy in order to mitigate the issue, but we'd like to resolve this at the root of the problem.
This morning, the bandwidth for one of the offices spiked shortly after 7am. I have attached a selection from the Sylink.log from that particular branch's GUP, beginning about 30 min before the problem occurred. This log is Greek to me, so any help would be appreciated.
Thanks so much!
-Brad