Hello All, Background Info:
Current Mac agent: 8.22
I am testing with a "test" cid where I am using the 9 recommended subscription.
I've tested by moving machines into a new group getting a new update policy pointing to that cid and also manually
changed the update location from the client. My update servers are redhat 6 boxes running apache 2.15 (the latest in the repo
and probably for the duration of redhat 6). I've come to discover that when the sophos agent does an update it will create a
new http connection to every single file its looking to download. On a version 9 upgrade it will create 1600 + http connections
(1695 file download). I've been doing some tests and on a vanilla fully patched mountain lion host I discovered that although
the agent makes an insane amount of http connections it will pull the v9 files down and do the upgrade no problem. On the
other hand when I do the same thing from a mavericks host it will attempt to pull the files down, create 1000+ http
connections, and eventually fail every time. Not sure if this is an issue with the mavericks tcp stack but this is a big problem
for me. With version 8 ending support in April I am trying to update my clients. In my testing I have about 100 sub 10.8.5
machines that received the upgrade and are running the latest v9 agent but this was more of a on demand process where I
manually updated hosts from the console. I was told by sophos support that my apache server is the cause and to upgrade,
here is the kb article I was told to reference http://www.sophos.com/en-us/support/knowledgebase/118935.aspx Ok, but that
article isn't exactly what I'm experiencing and it works with mountain lion hosts.. I've also tried increasing the max client limit
on the apache server to 4000 connections, mavericks still fails. Any help regarding this issue is greatly appreciated.
Thank You! I can provide logs, etc if need be.
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