Problems with Remote Administration Server

[karolis]

I've submitted this problem to Nod32 support last Friday and still haven't received any reply. So maybe here someone will guide me.

I have installed Remote Administration Server on Windows 2000 server and successfully deployed over 60 clients. Couple of days later I've noticed that disk performance on that server dropped substantially. As there was no Nod32 Antivirus installed, I've decided to look for problem elsewhere. Took me a day to figure that it was Remote Administration Server service which was causing all the slow down. Here are graphs done by HDTune with service enabled and disabled:

http://banginis.nomagic.com/shared/hdd_nod_enabled.png

http://banginis.nomagic.com/shared/hdd_nod_disabled.png

System runs on Windows 2000 Server with software RAID1. Have any idea how to fix this isssue? Repair didn't helped. Thanks!

[Marcos]

Does the server replicate to a master server or other lower servers replicate the data to this one? This could also happen if clients generate too much log records (ie. if they are set to log all scanned files or blocked connection attempts).

[karolis]

Problem persists even after disconnecting from network. After complete reinstall of ESET server and console, performance got worse.

[karolis]

The problem was caused by ODBC Tracing:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/268591

More specifically it was bloated sql log (4gb) at c:\windows\temp\sql.log which caused slowdown. After stopping ODBC Tracing and removing this log everything went fine.

Thanks to ESET support for their assistance in solving this non trivial issue.