Since a few weeks we suddenly have a lot of log entries concerning show tasks commands issues by the server itself. We however don’t have any idea where it’s coming from. A typical line looks like:
30-01-2005 05:05:06 Remote console command issued by DOMPWW01/SRV/Business: show stat Mem.Allocated.Process
show stat Server.AvailabilityIndex
Server.AvailabilityIndex = 100
1 statistics found
The checked are:
show stat Database.Database.BufferPool.PerCentReadsInBuffer
show stat Mem.Allocated.Process
show stat Server.AvailabilityIndex
show stat Server.CPU.Count
show stat Server.Trans.PerMinute.Peak
show stat Server.Users
show stat Http.CurrentConnections
show stat Mail.TotalRouted
show stat Mail.Delivered
show stat Mail.Dead
show stat Mail.Waiting
It checks each statistic twice (so the bunch above gets repeated right after the last statistic is asked). This whole process runs every 5 minutes, so you can imagine that it generates a lot of log.
Subject: RE: Server issueing remote console commands
It would, but then the line would say:30-01-2005 05:05:06 Remote console command issued by Martijn de Jong/USR/Business: show stat Mem.Allocated.Process
instead it mentions the servername, which makes it look like it’s not an administrator client
Subject: Could be a scheduled agent running on the server issueing remote console cmds to itself
We were thinking of that too, but one fact makes it unlikely. The show stats starts at exactly the same times (x:00, x:05, x:10 etc) no matter when the server was last restarted. This is, in my opinion, not the behavior of a scheduled agent.
Edit: We actually tested this morning by quitting the agent manager for a while. Didn’t solve it, so that rules out scheduled agents as the cause.