XenServer - Enable only necessary and secure services, protocols, daemons - 'snapwatchd'

Information

Unintended VM snapshots can degrade performance and use storage resources. If snapshot support is not required then turn this service off.

Solution

systemctl disable snapwatchd

Item Details

Category: CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT

References: 800-53|CM-7b., CSCv6|9.1

Plugin: Unix

Control ID: f31b7c62db6c0ac1cca8013b1ff24818eacde4269a939e05e35b2128c20af6e5