Schedule a management restart

diennea · ‎09-15-2014

Hi,

regarding GUI slowness I've a question:

a lot of people suggest to restart management server.

How can I schedule a night restart of it?

Thanks

regards

pulukas · ‎09-15-2014

Sorry but there is no user available mechanism to do this on the Palo Alto.

You could look into scripting solutions as an option.

But if you need to restart the management service frequently, you should probably open a case and get to the root cause. This should only need to be done occasionally and not be a routine affair.

Steve Puluka BSEET - IP Architect - DQE Communications (Metro Ethernet/ISP)
ACE PanOS 6; ACE PanOS 7; ASE 3.0; PSE 7.0 Foundations & Associate in Platform; Cyber Security; Data Center

hshah · ‎09-15-2014

Hi Diennea,

There is no way to restart management server frequenty. You might be able to do it through CRON function of linux through scripting.

However, its not a good idea. Can you please provide output for follwoing things.

1. PAN-OS version

2. Show system resources.

Regards,

Hardik Shah

diennea · ‎09-15-2014

Hi,

our PAN OS versione is 6.0.4

Here the output (but I restared managerment server yesterday):

top - 15:09:59 up 27 days, 20:31, 1 user, load average: 0.18, 0.30, 0.57

Tasks: 100 total, 1 running, 99 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie

Cpu(s): 3.3%us, 5.6%sy, 10.7%ni, 70.5%id, 9.7%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.2%si, 0.0%st

Mem: 938136k total, 878980k used, 59156k free, 44280k buffers

Swap: 2008084k total, 1240780k used, 767304k free, 135576k cached

PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM TIME+ COMMAND

2977 20 0 68244 1360 1104 S 2 0.1 15:58.35 pan_dhcpd

8149 20 0 4464 1012 784 R 2 0.1 0:00.04 top

20857 20 0 1139m 116m 1864 S 2 12.7 47:13.25 logrcvr

1 20 0 1832 544 516 S 0 0.1 0:37.43 init

2 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.01 kthreadd

3 RT 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:09.15 migration/0

4 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 3:35.21 ksoftirqd/0

5 RT 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:10.29 migration/1

6 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 3:21.78 ksoftirqd/1

7 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 6:59.72 events/0

8 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 11:02.93 events/1

9 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.05 khelper

12 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 async/mgr

111 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:04.40 sync_supers

113 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:07.02 bdi-default

114 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 2:51.33 kblockd/0

115 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 2:44.42 kblockd/1

124 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 ata/0

125 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 ata/1

126 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 ata_aux

131 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 khubd

134 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 kseriod

155 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 rpciod/0

156 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 rpciod/1

172 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 68:02.37 kswapd0

173 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 aio/0

174 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 aio/1

175 1 -19 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 nfsiod

765 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 4:29.31 octeon-ethernet

793 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 scsi_eh_0

798 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:01.18 mtdblockd

826 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 usbhid_resumer

866 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 1:57.10 kjournald

919 16 -4 1992 392 388 S 0 0.0 0:01.03 udevd

1888 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:09.18 kjournald

1889 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.01 kjournald

1944 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 4:29.14 flush-8:0

2088 20 0 2004 592 544 S 0 0.1 0:08.12 syslogd

2091 20 0 1888 328 324 S 0 0.0 0:00.03 klogd

2100 20 0 1868 324 228 S 0 0.0 7:54.23 irqbalance

2108 rpc 20 0 2076 428 424 S 0 0.0 0:00.01 portmap

2126 20 0 2108 544 540 S 0 0.1 0:00.06 rpc.statd

2191 20 0 3276 528 524 S 0 0.1 0:00.01 xinetd

2210 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 0:00.00 lockd

2211 1 -19 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 3:35.35 nfsd

2212 1 -19 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 3:43.64 nfsd

2213 1 -19 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 3:35.33 nfsd

2214 1 -19 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 3:37.45 nfsd

2215 1 -19 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 3:39.36 nfsd

2216 1 -19 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 3:29.24 nfsd

2217 1 -19 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 3:39.09 nfsd

2218 1 -19 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 3:37.14 nfsd

2221 20 0 2480 604 512 S 0 0.1 0:07.39 rpc.mountd

2225 nobody 20 0 107m 5228 2664 S 0 0.6 2:18.35 appweb3

2231 nobody 20 0 154m 8604 3160 S 0 0.9 2:35.13 appweb3

2290 0 -20 85888 8404 2028 S 0 0.9 168:22.72 masterd_apps

2293 20 0 1884 428 424 S 0 0.0 0:00.01 agetty

2302 15 -5 41216 2260 1188 S 0 0.2 304:41.02 sysd

2317 20 0 100m 1112 1024 S 0 0.1 9:02.95 dagger

2318 30 10 42968 3728 1672 S 0 0.4 105:34.18 python

2325 20 0 139m 1908 1176 S 0 0.2 18:49.81 sysdagent

2344 20 0 7208 568 564 S 0 0.1 0:00.09 tscat

2346 20 0 67660 996 864 S 0 0.1 11:20.87 brdagent

2347 20 0 36052 988 840 S 0 0.1 13:44.24 ehmon

2352 20 0 91092 1172 928 S 0 0.1 10:47.23 chasd

2616 20 0 95784 1668 1196 S 0 0.2 10:49.90 cryptod

2660 20 0 6844 876 792 S 0 0.1 0:00.25 sshd

2661 20 0 6780 628 624 S 0 0.1 0:00.04 sshd

2665 20 0 0 0 0 S 0 0.0 2:24.26 kjournald

Usually I have this situation (see PA-500 CLI and web interface unbearably slow )

ORDER BY CPU

top - 13:04:59 up 10 days, 18:26, 1 user, load average: 1.24, 1.58, 3.50
Tasks: 104 total,   3 running, 101 sleeping,   0 stopped,   0 zombie
Cpu(s): 3.7%us, 5.8%sy, 11.2%ni, 68.2%id, 10.9%wa, 0.0%hi, 0.2%si, 0.0%st
Mem:    938136k total,   897268k used,    40868k free,    34108k buffers
Swap: 2008084k total, 1521284k used,   486800k free,   111064k cached

PID USER      PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEM    TIME+ COMMAND
22839       30 10 4012 1384 1088 R   60 0.1   1:33.20 genindex.sh
7235       20   0 4464 1016 784 R    4 0.1   0:00.05 top
2972       20   0 102m 1448 1072 S    2 0.2   6:26.11 keymgr
20881       20   0 49912 2100 1388 S    2 0.2   8:28.13 snmpd
    1       20   0 1832 544 516 S    0 0.1   0:15.38 init
    2       20   0     0    0    0 S    0 0.0   0:00.01 kthreadd
    3       RT   0     0    0    0 S    0 0.0   0:03.61 migration/0
    4       20   0     0    0    0 S    0 0.0   1:25.80 ksoftirqd/0
    5       RT   0     0    0    0 S    0 0.0   0:03.97 migration/1
    6       20   0     0    0    0 S    0 0.0   1:21.47 ksoftirqd/1
    7       20   0     0    0    0 S    0 0.0   2:43.78 events/0
    8       20   0     0    0    0 S    0 0.0   4:18.32 events/1
    9       20   0     0    0    0 S    0 0.0   0:00.05 khelper
   12       20   0     0    0    0 S    0 0.0   0:00.00 async/mgr
111       20   0     0    0    0 S    0 0.0   0:01.70 sync_supers
113       20   0     0    0    0 S    0 0.0   0:02.73 bdi-default
114       20   0     0    0    0 S    0 0.0   1:19.88 kblockd/0
115       20   0     0    0    0 S    0 0.0   1:16.84 kblockd/1
124       20   0     0    0    0 S    0 0.0   0:00.00 ata/0
125       20   0     0    0    0 S    0 0.0   0:00.00 ata/1
126       20   0     0    0    0 S    0 0.0   0:00.00 ata_aux
131       20   0     0    0    0 S    0 0.0   0:00.00 khubd
134       20   0     0    0    0 S    0 0.0   0:00.00 kseriod
155       20   0     0    0    0 S    0 0.0   0:00.00 rpciod/0
156       20   0     0    0    0 S    0 0.0   0:00.00 rpciod/1
172       20   0     0    0    0 R    0 0.0 27:54.79 kswapd0
173       20   0     0    0    0 S    0 0.0   0:00.00 aio/0
174       20   0     0    0    0 S    0 0.0   0:00.00 aio/1
175        1 -19     0    0    0 S    0 0.0   0:00.00 nfsiod
765       20   0     0    0    0 S    0 0.0   1:44.30 octeon-ethernet
793       20   0     0    0    0 S    0 0.0   0:00.00 scsi_eh_0
798       20   0     0    0    0 S    0 0.0   0:01.18 mtdblockd
826       20   0     0    0    0 S    0 0.0   0:00.00 usbhid_resumer
866       20   0     0    0    0 S    0 0.0   0:43.94 kjournald
919       16 -4 1992 392 388 S    0 0.0   0:01.03 udevd
1172       20   0 21316 2468 2036 S    0 0.3   0:00.14 sshd

Tomorrow I will upgrade RAM to 2GB on PA500

I hope it will solve some problems....

hshah · ‎09-15-2014

Hi Diennea,

Output appears to be partial, I don't mgmtsrvr utilization.

I think you have free memory on MP, are you experiencing issue now.

Regards,

Hardik Shah

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