KBI 311318 Issue Addressed Argent Queue Engine Restarts And Jobs Are Reported As Abended In the Scheduler GUI

Version

Argent Job Scheduler 10.0 1505-A and earlier

Date

Monday, 21 September 2015

Summary

An issue has been addressed that Argent Queue Engine Restarts And Jobs Are Reported As Abended In the Scheduler GUI

Technical Background

Argent Queue Engine restarts and Jobs are reported as Abended in the Argent Job Scheduler GUI

When applications other than Argent Job Scheduler try to connect and send malicious data to the Argent Queue Engine port (default is 3135), Queue Engine may undergo a restart

Following error messages can be found in log when this issue is occurred::

09 May 2015 00:26:49.381 SRV0017 SVC_ARGENT (03268-03016) 02097 C8000_GetCore Failed: The memory length requested is invalid. Program XS_Worker.cpp, Line 2,097

09 May 2015 00:30:06.648 SRV0017 SVC_ARGENT (03268-03956) 02114 Socket error reading data field (-18): error allocating memory for receiving the data

09 May 2015 03:05:11.610 SRV0017 SVC_ARGENT (05892-02648) 00612 C8000_GetCore Failed: Error allocating 1,431,792,833 bytes by XS_Worker.cpp at 2,097

Resolution

Upgrade to Argent Job Scheduler 10.0 1509-A or later