Azure Information Scanner - Limiting CPU Usage

Question

Hi,

I am current testing an AIP Scanner installation to perform a classification exercise for on-premise files shares. I have an existing environment and a virtual environment that I am using to test.

The scanner is installed on the file server as there are no other options and when a scan is running it consumes all the available CPU. I have been researching ways to get around this and found the following article:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/information-protection/rms-client/clientv2-admin-guide-customizations#limit-cpu-consumption

The exact syntax isn't given for this particular command so I took the PowerShell script below from the "Limit the number of threads used by the scanner" section and changed it to this:

Set-LabelPolicy -Identity AIP -AdvancedSettings @{ScannerMaxCPU="75}

The command took some time to run and completed without an exit/error code.

After starting a new scan the "MSIP.Scanner.exe" process is still using over 90% of the available CPU on the file server.

I am looking for advice on:

The correct way to use the ScannerMaxCPU command, if I have done it wrong.

A method to check the current settings as I have been unable to access them through PowerShell and can't find anything documented online.

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

@Jamie Haras Thank you for reaching out to us, you can run this cmdlet to check the settings which you defined

(Get-LabelPolicy -Identity "policy name").settings

Documentation which you are following is correct - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/information-protection/rms-client/clientv2-admin-guide-customizations#limit-cpu-consumption

Let me know if you have any further questions, feel free to post back.