Akhil_128431
Oct 10, 2014Nimbostratus
Inactivity-timeout for tmsh connection
I had set the inactivity-timeout as 30 mins on my LTM (set months before). The tmsh list sys sshd inactivity-timeout returns me the following result.
ssh sshd {
inactivity-timeout 1800
}
I am expecting that any tmsh session that i establish on to my F5 box will timeout after the idle of 30 mins, but when i executed the w command recently, i see that there are stale connections that are idle for more than the given idle timeout. The output is given below..
[root@dc1autof5ltm01b:Active] config w
22:28:09 up 15 days, 6:37, 25 users, load average: 0.97, 0.76, 0.67
USER TTY FROM LOGIN@ IDLE JCPU PCPU WHAT
testserver pts/0 192.168.31.50 20:11 2:16m 0.32s 0.30s tmsh
testserver pts/1 192.168.61.137 Mon11 4days 0.34s 0.32s tmsh
testserver pts/2 192.168.61.137 20:41 1:46m 0.32s 0.30s tmsh
testserver pts/3 192.168.61.137 Tue06 3days 0.32s 0.30s tmsh
testserver pts/4 192.168.61.137 Tue06 3days 0.33s 0.31s tmsh
testserver pts/5 192.168.61.137 Tue11 3days 0.37s 0.36s tmsh
root pts/6 192.168.9.69 22:28 0.00s 0.03s 0.00s w
testserver pts/7 192.168.61.137 Tue18 3days 0.28s 0.26s tmsh
testserver pts/8 192.168.61.137 20:44 1:43m 0.31s 0.29s tmsh
testserver pts/9 192.168.61.137 20:46 1:41m 0.31s 0.30s tmsh
testserver pts/10 192.168.61.137 Tue06 3days 0.30s 0.29s tmsh
testserver pts/11 192.168.61.137 Wed09 2days 0.26s 0.24s tmsh
testserver pts/12 192.168.61.137 Wed09 2days 0.29s 0.27s tmsh
testserver pts/13 192.168.61.137 Wed11 2days 0.28s 0.27s tmsh
testserver pts/14 192.168.61.137 Wed12 2days 0.29s 0.28s tmsh
testserver pts/15 192.168.61.137 11:16 11:11m 0.33s 0.31s tmsh
testserver pts/17 192.168.31.77 17:14 5:13m 0.30s 0.28s tmsh
testserver pts/18 192.168.61.137 Wed16 2days 0.34s 0.33s tmsh
testserver pts/24 192.168.61.137 11:46 10:41m 0.26s 0.24s tmsh
testserver pts/26 192.168.61.137 Wed20 2days 0.34s 0.32s tmsh
testserver pts/32 192.168.61.137 Wed20 2days 0.31s 0.29s tmsh
testserver pts/34 192.168.61.137 13:21 9:06m 0.25s 0.23s tmsh
testserver pts/40 192.168.61.137 Wed20 2days 0.31s 0.29s tmsh
testserver pts/41 192.168.61.137 Thu11 35:11m 0.24s 0.22s tmsh
testserver pts/44 192.168.61.137 13:24 9:03m 0.25s 0.25s tmsh
The timeout happens properly in most of the cases-where my unused sessions get closed off properly, but there are a few sessions like these that are stale.
Am i doing or understanding it wrong, or is it that the F5 box is not acting on the inactive sessions?