AIQUM gets hung due to external scanners or scripts
Applies to
- ActiveIQ Unified Manager (AIQUM) 9.6+
- All OS Platform
Issue
- AIQUM gets hung at a particular time of day/week
- Gaps are seen in performance charts in AIQUM
- AIQUM GUI is slow or unresponsive
- Rediscover of cluster gets stuck
- Spikes in CPU usage seen
- journalctl: "- kernel: Rate limit exceeded" every few seconds or minutes
- Journacctlhas traces of external scripts:
 - > /opt/BACaml/scripts/update_aml.py --update --random_delay=14m # Added by
 > BACaml package)
- Packet capture shows monitoring tool constantly communicating with AIQUM over a certain port
- Reboot temporarily resolves the issue
