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Alan_B__139698
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Oct 19, 2018

Splunk "sticky" persistence issue - random disconnects

I'm load balancing a pool of three Splunk servers using "cookie" as my primary persistence, and "source_addr" as my fallback, however I've received complaints of random disconnects from users. Might ...
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Fallout1984's avatar
Fallout1984
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Oct 19, 2018

Searching Splunk during one of the reported disconnect times shows messages with this...

 

http_process_state_prepend - Invalid action:0x109010 Server sends too much data.

 

…which is discussed here:

 

https://support.f5.com/csp/article/K42151600

 

What I’ve done per the article is set the http profile to “none.” In so doing, cookie persistence is no longer a valid option for “stickiness” so I’ve set it to source address.