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sstafford
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Mar 27, 2009

Connections to outside databases timeout

Hi All,     I have a situation where outgoing connections from a pair of load-balanced shibboleth servers to a non-load-balanced oracle database are timing out after five minutes. Prior to...
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hoolio
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Mar 27, 2009
Hi Sid,

 

 

Are the outbound connections to the DB using a VIP with SNAT automap? If so, you might be hitting a hardcoded 300 second timeout on the SNAT automap. Take a look at the following solutions for some additional info and options:

 

 

SOL7606: Overview of BIG-IP LTM idle session timeouts

 

https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/7000/600/sol7606.html (Click here)

 

 

SOL6017: The BIG-IP LTM SNAT automap has a static timeout value of 300 seconds

 

https://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/6000/000/sol6017.html (Click here)

 

 

Aaron