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Fallout1984's avatar
Fallout1984
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Oct 01, 2021

Is it possible to display the session IDs associated with a particular user name via TMSH?

I question's come up regarding the ability to delete any active VPN sessions for a particular user name as part of off-boarding (for example, an employee quits, is fired, etc). I see how to display t...
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BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM)
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  • Daniel_Wolf's avatar
    Daniel_Wolf
    Oct 01, 2021

    Better:

    [root@bigip01:Active:Standalone] config # sessiondump --allkeys | grep 'session\.logon\.last\.username' | grep john.doe | awk -F'.' '{print $1}'
b24a3ae7

    -F'.' will set the delimeter to .

    {print $1} will only show the first block until the delimeter of the returned output

Daniel_Wolf's avatar
Daniel_Wolf
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Oct 01, 2021

Hi ,

are you lookig for this command:

[root@bigip01:Active:Standalone] config # sessiondump --allkeys | grep 'session\.logon\.last\.username' | grep john.doe
b24a3ae7.session.logon.last.username 6 john.doe

First 8 characters are the session ID you are looking for.

KR

Daniel 

  • Daniel_Wolf's avatar
    Daniel_Wolf
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    Oct 01, 2021

    Better:

    [root@bigip01:Active:Standalone] config # sessiondump --allkeys | grep 'session\.logon\.last\.username' | grep john.doe | awk -F'.' '{print $1}'
b24a3ae7

    -F'.' will set the delimeter to .

    {print $1} will only show the first block until the delimeter of the returned output

    • Fallout1984's avatar
      Fallout1984
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      Oct 01, 2021

      Yes, that works - thanks!