Our network security people are complaining that SEP is creating a LOT of unneccessary traffic but we simply cannot find what is causing so much traffic. We've had multiple tickets open on this particular problem, with Symantec Technical Support, we've throttled the bandwidth, and made all of our servers GUPs, and SEP continues to constantly generate gigs and gigs of traffic (~30 GB), saturating our network. We (still) do not know what the problem is.
On one of our reporting tools, it has been observed that in 6 hours, SEP created 72,800 status code 500 errors when some of our devices try to connect to the GUP. It states that the error message is specific to SECREG.DLL on the SEPM server.
I'm reaching out to anyone reading this with similar problems, and to ask if there's any way, once and for all, to fix this problem WITHOUT upgrading to the latest version. We are talking about a production server, and we CANNOT upgrade this server due to the critical nature of the environment it's installed in, so please do not suggest we upgrade to the latest version. We need to get this version working.
We are using SEPM version 12.1.4104.4130. The attached screen capture is from our reporting tool for SEP HTTP errors by URI.
Thank you.