Good day All,
Welcome back!!!! We had a strange incident for CPU alerts been reported by Client.. our monitoring tool was not showing any high CPU usage but Client as monitoring setup and they are getting CPU spike alerts one or two times in couple of days...
We did routine health check by checking month log CPU usage , CPU was hardly showing 30% spiking for entire month but still Client was getting alert so following steps was performed to further troubelshoot
1. Open resource monitor and started to keep a eye on CPU spike to see which Service is causing it..
2. After a close watch for like a hr was able to tell that svchost.exe was utilizing it
3. As svchost is a shared process had to identity which Service is causing it so enabled the check box next to Service host in CPU tab of resource montior and monitored as below
4. From the above i was able to identify it was event log Service which is piking the CPU
5.So opened event viewer and started to check the events found that in Security log for every 1 sec at-least 10 to 15 events on Event ID:5156 Platform Filtering Connection was getting generated and filling up the 1 GB security log file in no time. After the log file is filled its trying to over write but number are events are so high its unable to process it and spiking the CPU
6. Verified in local security policy that Audit Object Access policy was enabled for both Success, Failure and it been enforced with GPO.
7. Starting Windows 2008 Audit policy has changed and lot of subcategories are added and you can verify it by typing in command prompt auditpol / get / category
8.Our Security policy was to have both Success and Failure for Filtering Platform Connection, had to raise a exception and policy was changed from Success and Failure to only Failure with the following command on the Server
auditPol /set /Subcategory:"Filtering Platform Connection" /Success:disable /failure:enable
Ola the issue got resolved and we did't see any more spikes....
hopefully this helps someone, until next one you all have a good day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Welcome back!!!! We had a strange incident for CPU alerts been reported by Client.. our monitoring tool was not showing any high CPU usage but Client as monitoring setup and they are getting CPU spike alerts one or two times in couple of days...
We did routine health check by checking month log CPU usage , CPU was hardly showing 30% spiking for entire month but still Client was getting alert so following steps was performed to further troubelshoot
1. Open resource monitor and started to keep a eye on CPU spike to see which Service is causing it..
2. After a close watch for like a hr was able to tell that svchost.exe was utilizing it
3. As svchost is a shared process had to identity which Service is causing it so enabled the check box next to Service host in CPU tab of resource montior and monitored as below
4. From the above i was able to identify it was event log Service which is piking the CPU
5.So opened event viewer and started to check the events found that in Security log for every 1 sec at-least 10 to 15 events on Event ID:5156 Platform Filtering Connection was getting generated and filling up the 1 GB security log file in no time. After the log file is filled its trying to over write but number are events are so high its unable to process it and spiking the CPU
6. Verified in local security policy that Audit Object Access policy was enabled for both Success, Failure and it been enforced with GPO.
7. Starting Windows 2008 Audit policy has changed and lot of subcategories are added and you can verify it by typing in command prompt auditpol / get / category
8.Our Security policy was to have both Success and Failure for Filtering Platform Connection, had to raise a exception and policy was changed from Success and Failure to only Failure with the following command on the Server
auditPol /set /Subcategory:"Filtering Platform Connection" /Success:disable /failure:enable
Ola the issue got resolved and we did't see any more spikes....
hopefully this helps someone, until next one you all have a good day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!