Bandwidth, CPU, and Memory consumption during scan

Bandwidth, CPU, and Memory consumption during scan

What are the expected Bandwidth, CPU, and Memory consumption during asset scan?

All the data below is predicted from a single agent machine. Disk space will be consumed up to 1GB (approximately) from the agent installed drive.

Agent Process

Running application name

Approximate bandwidth consumption

Approximate CPU consumption

Approximate memory (RAM) consumption

At Agent Idle state

dcagentservice.exedcondemand.exedcagenttrayicon.exe(Running separate application for each logged-in user)(For windows andMac)[ Above 3 are ever-running processes ]

1 Kbps

0-2%

11 MB

Applying
configuration
(90 mins once)

dcconfig.exe

5 KB (Will be varied based on configuration. i.e., If there is any files uploaded in the deployed configuration, Uploaded file size will be added in the bandwidth consumption)

0-2%

6 - 50 MB (Will be based on the
number of
configurations
applied at the
current refresh
policy)

Refresh policy(90 mins once -without any deployment)

dcconfig.exe

4KB

0-2%

6MB

Inventory scan(At Scheduled time in server)

dcinventory.exe

2MB

17-20%

14MB

Patch Scan (When applying patch tasks)

dcpatchscan.exe

13 MB (This is for the initial patch scan. From the next scan, it will be done with the local files until the patch DB sync processed in the server)

25-30%

60MB

Updating Power Refresh (Once in 3 hours)

dcconfig.exe

1KB

0-1%

6MB

Agent Upgrade(Applying PPMand If agentversionchanges)

dcconfig.exe

AgentUpgrader.exe

 

 

 

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