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Hamish
Cirrocumulus
CirrocumulusUIE Session questions about timeouts...
A couple of questions about sessions (Using the session command) and timeouts...
1. When a session times-out, are you supposed to get an AUTH_ERROR event?
This seems to happen, but not at the timeout. It seems to be hard-coded to
5 minutes? (When using a timeout of 60 seconds).
2. Is there a supported way to reset the time on an added session?
I can add a new session with
session add uie
and get the current value with
session lookup...
The docs to say just touching the session SHOULD reset the how timeout. I want to
implement this as an idle timer... Not as an absolute time. Lookups don't seem to
reset the timer (As you'd expect).
Is the supported (Correct) way to reset the timer just to attempt to re-add the
session again overtop of the existing session key? (problem 1 seems to be masking
my testing of this).
TIA
Hamish.
3 Replies
hoolioCirrostratus
Hi Hamish,
I think the auth timeout and UIE session timeout are two independent values. The auth profile has an idle timeout which may trigger AUTH_ERROR. I haven't seen this in past testing though. I think that the old AUTH_ events have been deprecated by AUTH_RESULT though. So I'm not sure whether it will be possible to depend on AUTH_ERROR even if it might work for you now.
As for your other questions, I thought just looking up the session value would reset the timer. But I would definitely expect the timer to be reset if you add the same session key again. Can anyone correct/confirm this?
You might consider opening a case with F5 Support to get feedback on these session timeout questions and raise an RFE case asking for better handling of auth timeouts. If you do this, could you reply back with what F5 says?
Thanks,
Aaron
HamishAh! Cheers. I think I have it now. I can't find any docs on actual auth timeouts... That's what threw me... Hopefully I'm not mixing up the session and auth timeouts now...
But I still can't stop the AUTH_ERROR event firing after 5 minutes... The profile I'm using does have a timeout of 300 seconds. Which matches the timeout I'm seeing, but how do I reset that? The profile says it's an IDLE timeout. But the session isn't remaining idle...
H- hoolioMaybe the auth "idle" timeout is how long the auth session is stored for and the timer is only updated when another AUTH:: call is made with that auth ID? That's just a guess though. Maybe someone from F5 can comment. Else, maybe a case would help you get an answer.
If you do get more info on this from Support, could you reply here with an update?
Thanks,
Aaron
