WA000-WI6020 IIS7 - The application pool must have a recycle time set.

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Information

Application pools can be periodically recycled to avoid unstable states possibly leading to application crashes, hangs, or memory leaks.

Solution

1. Open the IIS Manager.
2. Click the Application Pools.
3. Highlight an application pool and click Recycling... in the Action Pane.
4. Choose a fixed interval type of fixed time and/or specific time. If regular time interval is the only type chosen, then the value entered must be greater than 0.
NOTE: Do not click Recycle!

See Also

https://dl.dod.cyber.mil/wp-content/uploads/stigs/zip/U_MS_IIS_7-0_STIG.zip

Item Details

Category: CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

References: 800-53|CM-6, CAT|II, CSCv6|3.1, Rule-ID|SV-46344r4_rule, STIG-ID|WA000-WI6020_IIS7, Vuln-ID|V-13704

Plugin: Windows

Control ID: cb6c062b1626e8b8e5133825a459713b256471562229ae3e9b8f497c461beeed