What is the easiest way to speed up log analysis?

This article applies to:

• Security Reporting Center 2.0x
• Security Reporting Center 2.1

Question:

Symptoms:

• How do I minimize the resources used when running an analysis?
• Reports are taking a long time to analyze.
• Is there a way to minimize how many tasks run at one time?

Information:

In order to speed up the analysis and minimize the resources used you can decrease the Concurrent tasks for agent.  To do this please follow these steps:

1. Click Expanded Interface to make sure the Expanded interface is showing.
2. Click Scheduler > Agents.
3. Click Edit Agent Settings.
4. Change the Concurrent Tasks for agent from 2 to 1.
5. Click Save.

When you run a report we should now only analyze one task at a time.  This will reduce the memory consumption and help speed up the reporting process.

Notes:

This article was previously published as:

NETIQKB40340