Starting with version 2.8.0, the Connect Management Console allows Administrators to test network bandwidth between specific agents. To start the speed test, go to the Configure -> Diagnostic tab.
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Select any 2 agents to run test on. Both agents shall be online and remain online during test.
Select protocol to test the speed.
Press 'Start Test' button.
Agents v2.8 will use their standard peer discovery mechanisms (apart from Known hosts, discovery through known hosts only does not work) and ZGT protocol (WAN optimized) even if your Agents are not licensed for WAN optimization. On the other hand, Agents v2.9 will fall to TCP if WAN optimization is disabled for either of them.
Files are not hashed during speed test. This means that on real data in a job, is The job or agent profile has hashing enabled, the speed of syncing will be different from what speed test showed.
The Agent(s) will start sending random 128 Kb sized packets for 10 seconds. The Output speed samples will let you understand what bandwidth is available between 2 peers. That's the speed at which agents will be able to transfer data.
Bandwidth scheduler rules are not taken into account when performing the test. However, speed limit from the license package is taken into consideration.
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It's a one-run test. To start a new one, close the results dialog and click "Start test" again.