Idle Session in aix - aix

where in AIX is timeot set for a telnet session?
I need to keep each session open indefinitely.
I check the following files
/etc/security/login.cfg
/etc/security/.profile
/etc/profile and my login files
either TMOUT=0 or i remove it form these files, but idle session still went out?
there is any services to start and stop for that?
Thanks

See this Tek-Tip forum post for the same issue.
In short:
check your TMOUT and TIMEOUT environment variables, if set, they could initiate closing of idle sessions
check /etc/security/login.cfg for a shell timeout in "logintimeout"
check your firewall, if it drops idle tcp connections after some time
Maybe you could also configure your clients to send null-packages from time to time to keep sessions alive.

GNU Screen is a more general solution to this problem.

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Splunk 7.2.9.1 Universal forwarder on SUSE Linux12.4 not communicating and forwarding logs to Indexer after certain period of time

I have noticed Splunk 7.2.9.1 Universal forwarder on SUSE Linux12.4 is not communicating to deployment server and forwarding logs to indexer after certain period of time. "splunkd" process appears to be running while this issue persists.
I have to restart UFW for it to resume communication to deployment and forward logs. But this will again stop communication after certain period of time.
I cannot see any specific logs in splunkd.log while this issue occurs.
However, i noticed below message from watchdog.log
06-16-2020 11:51:09.055 +0200 ERROR Watchdog - No response received from IMonitoredThread=0x7f24365fdcd0 within 8000 ms. Looks like thread name='Shutdown' is busy !? Starting to trace with 8000 ms interval.
Can somebody help to understand what is causing this issue.
This appears to be a Known Issue. From the 7.2.9.1 release notes:
Universal Forwarders stop sending data repeatedly throughout the day
Workaround: In limits.conf, try changing file_tracking_db_threshold_mb
in the [inputproc] stanza to a lower value.
I did not find a version where this is not listed as a known problem.

Is there a way to stop monit from sending monitor and unmonitor email messages

I've recently started using Monit to monitor some production machines. And it does this well. But the annoying issue I have is that part of the routine is to restart the servers once a day on a rotating basis and each of those restarts generates a unmonitor and monitor message.
I can't find a specific alert setting to turn this off and consequently I'm bombarded by correct but unnecessary messages. There does not seem to be a specific event related to this.
Does anyone know of a way to do this? To be clear, I want to tell monit to unmonitor a server/task, restart or do something, then restart the server/task, then monitor it again. But I don't want to know about the unmonitor or monitor, only failure situations.
You can disable alerts for user actions in general, like the monitrc states:
## Do not alert when Monit starts, stops or performs a user initiated action.
## This filter is recommended to avoid getting alerts for trivial cases.
#
# set alert your-name#your.domain not on { instance, action }
Documentation: https://mmonit.com/monit/documentation/monit.html#Setting-an-event-filter

Monit cannot start/stop service

Monit cannot start/stop service,
If i stop the service, just stop monitoring the service in Monit.
Attached the log and config for reference.
#Monitor vsftpd#
check process vsftpd
matching vsftpd
start program = "/usr/sbin/vsftpd start"
stop program = "/usr/sbin/vsftpd stop"
if failed port 21 protocol ftp then restart
The log states: "stop on user request". The process is stopped and monitoring is disabled, since monitoring a stopped (= non existing) process makes no sense.
If you Restart service (by cli or web) it should print info: 'test' restart on user request to the log and call the stop program and continue with the start program (if no dedicated restart program is provided).
In fact one problem can arise: if the stop scripts fails to create the expected state (=NOT(check process matching vsftpd)), the start program is not called. So if there is a task running that matches vsftpd, monit will not call the start program. So it's always better to use a PID file for monitoring where possible.
Finally - and since not knowing what system/versions you are on, an assumption: The vsftpd binary on my system is really only the daemon. It is not supporting any options. All arguments are configuration files as stated in the man page. So supplying start and stop only tries to create new daemons loading start and stop file. -- If this is true, the one problem described above applies, since your vsftpd is never stopped.

Can uplodading a file using org.apache.net.ftp wait infinitely?

I am using apache.net.ftp api to download from and upload to ftp server. Its working fine in normal scenarios.
But the issue starts when there is some latency or connection is closed by the server for some reasons.
Here comes the time-out. I found a parameter 'SO_TIMEOUT' which is considered when reading from socket. So, I used ftpClient.setSoTimeout(time in millis) method to set it which will be used while downloading a file. It worked fine.
I am not getting how to set time-out while uploading the file to the ftp-server.
Thanks in advance.
Check the following things to make sure everything is running fine,and then try again::
Check the Firewall setting,if any which might be blocking the incoming connections and the connection timeout.

jmeter hangs up and won't return

I am running 340 concurrent users to load test on server using jmeter.
But on most of the cases jmeter hangs up and won' t return, even if I try to close the connection it just hangs up. and eventually I have to close the application.
Any idea how to check what is holding the requests and how to check the requests sent by jmeter and find the bottleneck.
Got the following message on closing the thread
Shutting down thread please be patient message
I've hit this several times over the past few years. In each of my cases (may not be in your's) the issue was with the Load Balance (F5) I was sending my traffic through. Basically a property called OneConnect was holding the connections in a time-wait state and never killing the connection.
Run a pack tool like wireshark and see what's happening with the requests.
Try distributed testing, 340 concurrent users is not a big deal, but still you can try if that decreases your pain. Also take a look at the following link:
http://jmeter.apache.org/usermanual/best-practices.html#lean_mean
First check you script is ok with one user.
Ensure you use assertions.
Then run you test following jmeter best practices:
no gui
no costly listeners
You should then be able to see in csv output the longest request and be able to fix your issue.
I also encountered this problem before when I run my JMeter on my laptop(Core 2 Duo 1.5Ghz) it always hang-up in the middle of the processing. I tried to run on another pc which is more powerful than my laptop and its works now smoothly. Therefore, JMeter will run effectively if your pc or laptop has a better specs.
Note: It is also advisable to run your JMeter in non-gui mode.
Example to run JMeter in Linux box:
$ ./jmeter -t test.jmx -n -l /Users/home/test.jtl
I had the
one or more test threads won't exit
because of a firewall blocking some requests. So I had to leap in the firewalls timeout for all blocked request... then it returned.
You are getting this error probably because JVM is not capable of running so many threads. If you take a look at your terminal, you will see the exception you get:
Uncaught Exception java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: unable to create new native thread. See log file for details.
You can solve this by doing Remote Testing and have multiple clusters running, instead of one.