I've seen this behavior in 7.1 without a load balancer in the way. Timeouts happen in 15 minutes instead of 60 and I've never figured out why. Running Tomcat 5.5 and MT 7.1 patch 006.
Sincerely, Robert Fults Remedy Admin/Dev. Florida International University Email: rfu...@fiu.edu<mailto:rfu...@fiu.edu> http://uts.fiu.edu<http://uts.fiu.edu/> From: Lyle Taylor [mailto:tayl...@ldschurch.org] Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2010 1:41 PM Subject: Re: Session Invalid Error ** Hmm. Odd. I was seeing something similar at one point, but I think I tracked it down in our case to either the F5 or the IBM HTTP server switching someone from one MT server to the other for some unknown reason. It hasn't happened for a while for us, though, so I'm not sure what changed. I'm pretty sure I've never seen sessions expire like that so long as the person stays on the same MT server, though, on 7.1 p5 or 7.5 p3. Just out of curiosity, why do you have apache web servers in front of tomcat if they're simply forwarding to the local tomcat instance? Are you serving up static content (e.g., documentation) as well? Now you're making me nervous about upgrading. We're currently on MT 7.5 p3, and I was considering changing to p6. Have you done any testing with p5 or p6 yet to see if that makes a difference? Thanks, Lyle From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arsl...@arslist.org] On Behalf Of Axton Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2010 11:27 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Subject: Re: Session Invalid Error ** I've verified this is not the case by looking through the Apache access logs. The sessions are staying with the same Apache HTTP server. The Apache HTTP servers talk to Apache Tomcat on localhost, so the HTTP servers aren't redirecting to different Tomcats. On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 12:15 PM, Lyle Taylor <tayl...@ldschurch.org<mailto:tayl...@ldschurch.org>> wrote: ** I would try to double-check that when this happens, the person hasn't actually been switched from one mid-tier server to the other - doing that could cause what you are seeing. You could verify this by logging into the configuration page and looking at the cache information just after someone gets an invalid session message and has to log in again. There are entries on the cache settings page for everyone that has recently logged into the mid-tier on that server. If you find an entry for that person on both servers, then I would suspect that something is causing the F5 to switch from one server to the other, despite the sticky bit setting. Lyle From: Action Request System discussion list(ARSList) [mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG<mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG>] On Behalf Of Axton Sent: Wednesday, July 28, 2010 8:10 AM To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG<mailto:arslist@ARSLIST.ORG> Subject: Re: Session Invalid Error ** We are facing the same issue with mid-tier 7.5 patch 4 on Tomcat 6.0.20. Axton Grams The opinions, statements, and/or suggested courses of action expressed in this E-mail do not necessarily reflect those of BMC Software, Inc. My voluntary participation in this forum is not intended to convey a role as a spokesperson, liaison or public relations representative for BMC Software, Inc. On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 2:50 AM, Aluru, Radhika <radhika.al...@invesco.com<mailto:radhika.al...@invesco.com>> wrote: ** Hi Listers, In my Test environment, Session timeout is set to 60 minutes in Remedy midtier servers. I have F5 load balancer in front of two midtier servers and sticky bit is set to 120 minutes on the F5 load balancer. Application timeout is set to 1 hour. When users are accessing the application via web, users are getting session invalid or timed out error before 60 minutes sometimes before 20 minutes . This is not happening every time. It is intermittent. Has anyone faced this type of issue and found any solution to resolve this? I have tried setting the session time out in web.xml(located in D:\ARSystem\Mid-Tier\WEB-INF) file of the midtier servers. But this didn't resolve the issue. 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