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whizkid
Asked: 2011-01-15 03:58:31 +0800 CST

SNMP.exe on a physical server with Windows Server 2003 consistently takes 20% of CPU utilization

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snmp.exe takes 20% cpu utilization, irrespective of any other processes running/stopped on the server. The machine has HP hardware (oops, not IBM) When we stop the snmp service, the CPU utilization is back to normal. Can anyone help on this please.

windows windows-server-2003 snmp cpu-usage

2 Answers

  1. Are you running any monitoring software on the server? How about Intel Proset? I know with some versions of Dell's Openmanage, you will see high SNMP usage, but not sure about HP.

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  2. Best Answer

    investigate to see if the vendor has updates for any of the management tools. It's likely that some of the HPSIM or other management agents is or contains an SNMP sub-agent that is behaving badly.

    It's also possible that it's the main SNMP service from MS, so see if you have any SNMP-related patches available, but IME it's more likely to be the former issue.

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