[Xymon] Frequent purple alerts

[Jaime Kikpole]

It's Windows Server 2012R2 and it happens several times a day, every day.
I could take a look at the CPU load, though.  Thanks for the idea.




Jaime Kikpole

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On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 9:04 AM Timothy Williams <tlwilliams4 at vcu.edu>
wrote:

> What OS version are they? Does it happen more often after Patch Tuesday?
> We have some 2008 to 2012 servers that the CPU goes so high as the OS runs
> it's update scans to see what patches it needs. Happens every few hours
> (set in WSUS frequency), and so severe that XymonClient can't run and send
> its files to Xymon server.
>
> Tim Williams
>
>
> On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 8:54 AM Jaime Kikpole via Xymon <xymon at xymon.com>
> wrote:
>
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>> Subject: Frequent purple alerts
>> I have a number of systems running the PowerShell Xymon client.  One and
>> only one of them frequently gives purple alerts on all tests.  I haven't
>> found any pattern for this yet.  They just seem to happen several times per
>> day and then clear themselves after anything from a few minutes to a few
>> hours.  I tried removing and reinstalling the client, but that didn't seem
>> to help.
>>
>> Any suggestions?
>>
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>> Jaime Kikpole
>>
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>> Cairo-Durham Central School District
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>> cairodurham.org <http://www.cairodurham.org>
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