Excessive bandwidth usage...pointing to DC?

[teraside]

We have an Untangle dedicated Gateway and quite a few servers.

Untangle points to the primary domain controller. Sysadmin says it's his WSUS (installed on primary DC) causing the excessive usage, after disabling it today, then checking usage.

Problem is. How do we recover from this?

Essentially, having WSUS is a good line of being proactive and patching before real problems occur. But isn't so proactive anymore if you start using up to 4.5GB INT a day.

Any ideas?

Thanks

[Asha'man X]

That's nuts. Can you check to see what products he is hosting updates for in Wsus? I mean, if you guys aren't using XP x64 edition or the Itanium edition, you can deselect that to save bandwidth. Same goes for all other products that are not in your company.

Other than that I can only think it may be downloading updates over and over if it failed the first time, but I can't confirm this as I haven't played much with WSUS, so I don't know what it does when it fails to sync an update.

Anyway, that 4.5GB is truly too much, something is not right there.

[teraside]

That's nuts. Can you check to see what products he is hosting updates for in Wsus? I mean, if you guys aren't using XP x64 edition or the Itanium edition, you can deselect that to save bandwidth. Same goes for all other products that are not in your company.

Other than that I can only think it may be downloading updates over and over if it failed the first time, but I can't confirm this as I haven't played much with WSUS, so I don't know what it does when it fails to sync an update.

Anyway, that 4.5GB is truly too much, something is not right there.

Asha,

Stuck update seems to be the thing I'm thinking as well.

WSUS is only configured to download updates for software which is in the company, nothing else, so it's not getting anything it shouldn't.

I guess I could start googling, if I just wasn't so completely lazy to do it