RE: New behavior in 11g?

From: Radoulov, Dimitre <cichomitiko_at_gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 30 Nov 2013 09:33:02 +0100
Message-ID: <CAGJBphRumTPehMzMJmM2o_2Mp7qJ9OrKizbB=rT9SrdsUoH17w_at_mail.gmail.com>



Firewalls implement idle timeout for security reasons. If such mechanism is active, when connection remains idle for a predefined period Il 30/nov/2013 04:17 "Mohammad Rafiq" <rafiq9857_at_hotmail.com> ha scritto:

> How to reset
>
> and to reset the firewall idle timeout :) ????
>
> Thanks
>
> Rafiq
>
>
>
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> Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2013 10:50:17 -0600
> Subject: Re: New behavior in 11g?
> From: dramirezr_at_gmail.com
> To: maureen.english_at_alaska.edu
> CC: phil_at_phillip.im; oracle-l_at_freelists.org
>
> Mmm interesting, I don't have that parameter defined, let me test it first.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Regards
>
> David Ramírez Reyes
> Profesión: Padre de Familia
>
>
>
> On 29 November 2013 10:38, Maureen English <maureen.english_at_alaska.edu>wrote:
>
> David,
>
> The problem appears to be that we missed adding a parameter to our
> sqlnet.ora file on the new
> server.
>
> We set
> sqlnet.expire_time=10
> so that the database will check every 10 minutes to make sure that the
> process on the
> application server is still alive.
>
> - Maureen
>
>
> On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 5:23 AM, David Ramírez Reyes <dramirezr_at_gmail.com>wrote:
>
> Interesting problem, am having the same (with less impact) on our db
> migrated to 11g (we were on 8i, -don't ask why-).
>
> Please let me know if you find something on that side.
>
> Regards
>
> David Ramírez Reyes
> Profesión: Padre de Familia
>
>
>
> On 28 November 2013 16:37, Maureen English <maureen.english_at_alaska.edu>wrote:
>
> Phillip,
>
> Yes, there definitely is a firewall between the app server and the
> database server. I thought it was
> the same firewall as is between the app server and the old database
> server, but that may not be
> true. Or, the rules may not be the same...or....
>
> I didn't think of this as possibly being a firewall issue, but now that
> you mention it, we also use
> IP tables on the new database server. Even though we did the same on the
> old database server,
> this one could easily be set up differently.
>
> Thanks! Now I have another direction I can go for troubleshooting this
> problem.
>
> - Maureen
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 10:32 AM, Phillip Jones <phil_at_phillip.im> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> 'LOGOFF BY CLEANUP' occurs when a session hasn't explicitly closed the
> connection & Oracle has to clean the session up itself.
>
> Sounds like your new server is behind a firewall that drops connections
> after 2 hours, causing the above. Talk to your network admins and ask what
> network hardware is between the app and database server.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Phil
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 7:19 PM, Maureen English <
> maureen.english_at_alaska.edu> wrote:
>
> We have an application that has been using a 10g database for years. We
> just
> created a new 11.2.0.4 RAC database on a new RHEL5 Linux server.
>
> The audit trail, however, shows the last
> entry for that user as doing a 'LOGOFF BY CLEANUP'. I'm 95% sure that
> there had
> been no communication between the application and the database for this
> user for
> the 2 hours before it disappeared...I was monitoring netstat output and
> the audit trail.
>
> I'm also sure that this is related to either some kind of timeout on the
> new database
> server, or some kind of timeout in the database. IDLE_TIME for the
> profile is set to
> UNLIMITED, so it's not that. No alert log info and no trace file info to
> show anything
> is wrong.
>
> It really looks like something is killing the Oracle process, but I don't
> know where
> else to look. Is there some kind of system parameter that may have been
> set that
> kills processes that are essentially inactive?
>
> - Maureen
>
>
>
>
>
>
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