Alerter Aborts After Deadlocking with Another Process (153609)


The information in this article applies to:

  • Microsoft Systems Management Server 1.0
  • Microsoft Systems Management Server 1.1
This article was previously published under Q153609

SYMPTOMS

On a busy site, the Systems Management Server Alerter may become deadlocked with another Systems Management Server process using the Systems Management Server database. This causes the Alerter to abort its cycle and pending alerts will not be executed.

Alerter.log displays error messages similar to the following:
>>Msg>> Your server command (process id 15) was deadlocked with another process and has been chosen as deadlock victim. Re-run your command~~ $$<SMS_ALERTER>...

RESOLUTION

To correct this problem, upgrade to Systems Management Server 1.2.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Systems Management Server version 1.1. This problem has been corrected in Systems Management Server version 1.2.
Modification Type:MinorLast Reviewed:6/14/2005
Keywords:kbArtTypeINF kbDatabase kbDataLoader kbnetwork KB153609
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