Symptom:
High CPU Usage seen on the ESM machine. CPU increases every 10-15 seconds to 99%.
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Problem:
ESM utilizes an environmental variable named ‘_ESM_NUM_IMPORTERS’. Lowering this value will limit the number of sub importers that talk to the servers.
An example application for this use would be when there are a low number of servers for ESM to talk to but the ESM machine has a high number of CPU cores.
If you have 10 servers but 4 cores on your ESM machine, it doesn’t necessarily make sense to run an importer service on each core. But if you have 100 servers and 4 cores, it may make more sense to allow an importer to run on each core.
Solution:
Windows:
Run CMD as an administrator, and enter the following: setx _ESM_NUM_IMPORTERS "X" , where X is the number of importers to run.
Restart the ESM Importer service.
Linux:
You must edit the ESMImporter.conf file. On 16.04 and higher systems this is located in /etc/init.d/, on systems lower than 16.04 this is located in /etc/init/
At the top of the file add the following lines:
_ESM_ENUM_IMPORTERS="X"
export _ESM_ENUM_IMPORTERSReplace ‘X’ above with the number of importers to run.
Save the file and restart the ESM Importer daemon.