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The Performance Analyzer compares your server's settings against PDQ's recommended ranges and tells you what to change and where to change it. Open it from Help > Support > Performance Analyzer.
The analyzer runs against the local PDQ server. If both PDQ Deploy and PDQ Inventory are installed, it reports on both products and adds a set of cross-product checks. If only one product is installed, it reports on that product only.
Items that may need your attention are grouped by product and sorted with the highest performance impact first. Each item shows:
•Performance impact of either High or Low / Medium
•Current - the value found on the server
•Recommended - the value PDQ recommends
•Where to fix - the preference or view that controls the setting. Where possible this is a link that opens the setting for you, including in the other product's console.
Checks that passed are collected under checks look good at the bottom of the list. When nothing needs attention, the analyzer says so instead of listing items.
Select Re-run Analysis after changing a setting to confirm the item clears. To share the results with a support request, use Copy Results to put a text copy on the clipboard, or Export Results to save it to a file.
Check |
Recommended |
|---|---|
Scan Profiles - Heartbeat trigger |
No Heartbeat triggers. Use a Scan Age trigger of 1 day instead. |
Scan Profiles - Trigger frequency |
No triggers that fire more often than once an hour. |
Inventory Cleanup |
Enabled, keeping 14 days of scan data. |
Deployment Cleanup |
Enabled, keeping 14 days of deployment history. |
Total Targets |
Under 10,000 computers. Split across additional servers past that. |
Scan Timeout |
10 minutes or more. |
Total Concurrent Deployments |
Between 32 and 60. |
Retry Queue |
Disabled when PDQ Inventory is installed. Use Heartbeat instead. |
Deployment Cleanup (PDQ Deploy) |
Every 30 days. |
Deployment Timeout |
60 minutes or more. |
Total Deployments |
Under 7,000 stored deployments. |
Server Mode |
Listening on all addresses using the default TCP port (6336 for PDQ Deploy, 7337 for PDQ Inventory). |
Database size |
Under 200 MB for PDQ Deploy and under 1 GB for PDQ Inventory. |
Service Uptime |
Restart the background service every few days. |
Cross-product checks |
Console Users, Background Service users, server, server mode, and product version all match between PDQ Deploy and PDQ Inventory. |
After making the recommended changes, close both consoles, open an elevated command prompt, and run the commands shown at the bottom of the analyzer window. This reclaims space that is no longer needed under the new settings.
For the full tuning guide, see PDQ Deploy and PDQ Inventory - Performance Setting Recommendations.
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