Description
This article describes the function of WVSD process.
Related link:
https://help.fortinet.com/fweb/552/Content/FortiWeb/fortiweb-admin/vulnerability_scans.htm
Solution
This process is triggered if the 'Web-vulnerability' scan is going on.
It is recommended that this scan is turned off in the production hours.
Here is the CLI output if this process is running.
This article describes the function of WVSD process.
Related link:
https://help.fortinet.com/fweb/552/Content/FortiWeb/fortiweb-admin/vulnerability_scans.htm
Solution
This process is triggered if the 'Web-vulnerability' scan is going on.
It is recommended that this scan is turned off in the production hours.
Here is the CLI output if this process is running.
# diagnose system topHere is a screen shot (center).
Mem: 2719192K used, 1327840K free, 133384K shrd, 394860K buff, 442972K cached
CPU: 10.0% usr 90.0% sys 0.0% nic 0.0% idle 0.0% io 0.0% irq 0.0% sirq
Load average: 1.98 1.79 1.76 2/227 23477
PID PPID USER STAT VSZ %VSZ CPU %CPU COMMAND
2338 1 root S 585m 14.7 0 80.0 /bin/wvsd <<<<
If this process is consuming CPU and stopping it doesn’t reduce the CPU.
it needs to be killed manually.
Below are the steps from CLI to kill this process:
- Get the process-id of wvsd from 'diag sys top command'.
it needs to be killed manually.
Below are the steps from CLI to kill this process:
- Get the process-id of wvsd from 'diag sys top command'.
- Kill the process from CLI
# diag sys kill 11 2338
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