What is Common Agent, what does it do, and why was it taking 90+ percent of my CPU? -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: What is Common Agent, what does it do, and why was it taking 90+ percent of my CPU?
From: Jim Essinger <dilbernator@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2013 07:34:57 -0600
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i5/OS V7.1 with all the latest PTFs applied last Sunday.

When checking one of the partitions on our IBM i servers I had a system job
using lots of CPU. It has to do with Common Agent, and I could stop it
with the ENDTCPSVR SERVER(*CIMOM) command. The system is back to normal,
but it had high CPU usage overnight, since 11:00 last night.

What is it?

What is it used for?

Why was it using 90% + of my CPU?

How can I determine that it won't do it again?

Jim Essinger
Western Power Sports
Boise, Idaho

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