19 May 2011

SBS Monitoring with high CPU load

Just encountered an issue with an SBS 2008 server. High CPU load was caused by the SBSMonitoring SQL instance. Eventually narrow it down and applied the fix described here:

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en/smallbusinessserver/thread/d195baac-da8b-4387-9079-c55d5e1879b4

Whilst checking the event log afterwards, I also noted these information events. Another Google search promised resolution by using this fix:

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en/sqldatabaseengine/thread/0b3a2163-929f-4ba6-8e74-3d683aea19f1