ACS started sending messages - Alert from CSMon

n.admin · ‎02-01-2005

I haven't had time to dig into this yet. Has anyone experienced this recently? No config changes in the past 90 days but this weekend i started getting spammed about every 6 minutes with these messages.

Alert from ACS1 on Feb 01 2005 at 16:31

Test Timed out for service: CSRadius

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Alert from ACS1 on Feb 01 2005 at 16:26

Test Timed out for service: CSTacacs

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Alert from ACS1 on Feb 01 2005 at 15:45

Test Timed out for service: CSAdmin

Test Timed out for service: CSAuth

Test Timed out for service: CSDbSync

Test Timed out for service: CSLog

gfullage · ‎02-01-2005

At a rough guess either CSMon has gone haywire or your ACS server is down (or at least the ACs services running on it are down).

CSMon's job in life is to monitor th eother services to make sure they stay up. If it detects that one or more has gone down it can send emails out, attempt to restart the service, etc.

Go under Control Panel - Services and see if the 6 CS* services are running. If not then restart them. If they all seem OK, and your server is still processing authentication requests properly, then stop/start the CSMon service, it may be stuck in a loop.

n.admin · ‎02-02-2005

Thank you for your quick reply. The ACS appliance was still functioning, hence no panic yet. I took your suggestion and restarted the services and that seems to have stopped the CSMon from spamming me with e-mail's. I pulled a backup and went through the logs, seems to be OK again.

Eddie