In environments where there are large amounts of users and groups unix enabled caching is slow
Sometimes system resources are not sufficient enough to handle the large amount of caching and ipc errors are seen.
# sudo time /opt/quest/bin/vastool flush
Caching Schema... OK
Caching Users... OK
Mapping mapped users ... OK
Processing user overrides... OK
Caching Groups... OK
Processing group overrides... OK
Caching Srvinfo... OK
277.19 real 0.04 user 0.08 sys
Product Defect 24842
WORKAROUND:
1 - Use Workstation mode. To turn on workstation mode the following setting must be in the /etc/opt/quest/vas/vas.conf file under the vasd section:
workstation-mode = true
To set workstation mode you would do the following command on the client:
/opt/quest/bin/vastool configure vas vasd workstation-mode true
STATUS:
Fixed in QAS 4.0.3 Maintenance release.
Please see the following article for details and a link to the package:
https://support.quest.com/SolutionDetail.aspx?id=SOL82767
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