Is watchdog_enabled token managing also UNAB memory allocation ?

Products

• CA Privileged Access Manager - Server Control (PAMSC)

Issue/Introduction

We have seen that when memory allocation is very high unab is restarted so we have a question if watchdog_enabled token is also managing memory

 

 

Environment

Release : 14.1

PAMSC 14.x

Cause

The doubt if watchdog also managed the UNAB memory allocation to know if we can disable watchdog systemd on servers using this system as if is managing memory the token cannot be disabled.

 

Resolution

Watchdog  only makes sure that uxauthd is running and starts it if it is not.  It does not check memory consumption, number of open files, etc. : an internal uxauthd thread performs those health-checking duties.