[Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk-list Digest, Vol 20, Issue 1

[Mullis, Josh (CCI - Atlanta)]

Thank you for getting this written up Phil!
I will review shortly.

-Josh


On Sat, 2010-01-02 at 08:15 -0500, Philip Mather wrote:
> Josh/Guys,
>    I've paraphrased this conversation and put it in the wiki as a
> known issue...
> 
> https://fedorahosted.org/spacewalk/wiki/JabberAndOSAD
> 
> ...feel free to change it.
> 
> Regards,
>    Phil
>  
>         
>         Message: 2
>         Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 21:57:34 -0500
>         From: "Mullis, Josh (CCI - Atlanta)" <josh.mullis at cox.com>
>         To: "'spacewalk-list at redhat.com'" <spacewalk-list at redhat.com>
>         Subject: Re: [Spacewalk-list] question about jabber server and
>         osad
>                clients
>         Message-ID: <1262228254.3706.54.camel at localhost.localdomain>
>         Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
>         
>         
>         
>         I found out that our firewalls have session timeouts, thus the
>         jabber
>         connections were timing out.
>         (This also causes the strange behavior of a clients 'netstat
>         -an |grep
>         5222' command saying "ESTABLISHED" even though there is no
>         connection on
>         the spacewalk server.)
>         
>         
>         After doing the following, I am having no issues with
>         timeouts...
>         
>         ----------------------
>         sed -i 's/<interval>.*/<interval>120<
>         \/interval>/' /etc/jabberd/*.xml*
>         sed -i 's/<keepalive>.*/<keepalive>120<
>         \/keepalive>/' /etc/jabberd/*.xml*
>         sed -i 's/<idle>.*/<idle>600<\/idle>/' /etc/jabberd/*.xml* |
>         grep '<idle>'
>         
>         rhn-satellite restart
>         Restarted osad on all clients (This step may not be
>         necessary.)
>         ----------------------
>         
>         
>         The above settings are all explained in the .xml configs
>         under /etc/jabberd/ .
>         Essentially, it will send a "whitespace" character as a
>         keepalive.
>         (Every 2 minutes in my case)
>         I verified this in tcpdump and jabber does only send 1 small
>         packet
>         every 2 minutes.
>         
>         Of course depending on your firewall timeout configs, you may
>         need to
>         tweak this a bit.
>         
>         
>         
>         Hope this helps someone else.
>         -Josh
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Regards,
>   Phil
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