High CPU utilisation by Secure Path agent on Solaris 8 host

[SAKET_5]

Hi All,

Ever since I installed Secure Path V3.0D on a Solaris 8 host with all the latest patches, secure path agents is displaying high CPU utilisation patterns.

Any information would be appreciated?

Regards,
Saket

[Max Maklin_2]

I am also experiencing this issue with the same environmental factors as well. Did you find a resolution?

Thanks...

[SAKET_5]

Max,

I logged a call with HP in regard to this. Prior to that, we established that Nessus scanning which is performed on all our production host was actually causing the spagent to get into a silly state and causing high CPU. Even if you try to telnet to the ports used by "spagent", you can hike up the CPU utilisation which is scary, as any one with malicious inentions can just telnet a number of times to spagent's ports to bring your production service to its knees effectively bringing it down.

After much investigation, HP acknowledged this fact and have provided with a modified binary file for "spagent" as a bug-fix.

The updated binary seems to have fixed this issue. However, I do not believe the updated binary has been released on HP's web site yet as it still needs to go through their proper testing/certification, etc.

You may want to liaise with your HP support center and make them aware of it if they are not already.

Good luck.