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Jrivas181
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Oct 23, 2020

Max Recommended Idle TCP timeout and Keep alive interval

I have a scenario where users are running scripts that run through a virtual server but are getting closed after the default 300 second idle timeout. The reason is the script sends commands to the V...
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Keep Alive Interval
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boneyard
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Oct 25, 2020

no one can give you an exact max recommended setting because we don't know your environment. what works for one doesnt for another. i would go with the advice from this K article: https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K7606

 

In most cases, F5 recommends that you set the idle timeout to a small-as-possible finite value.

 

so talk with the people running the scripts or the admin of the server where they run these scripts. what is a valid maximum time these scripts can run. then adjust based on that.