[SunRay-Users] Timeout Values

[Troy Knabe]

----- Original Message -----
From: Joerg Barfurth <jub at sun.com>
Date: Tuesday, October 7, 2008 2:03 am
Subject: Re: [SunRay-Users] Timeout Values
To: tdknabe at wou.edu, SunRay-Users mailing list <sunray-users at filibeto.org>
Cc: "P.S.M. Swamiji" <Psm.Swamiji at sun.com>

> Troy Knabe schrieb:
> 
> >>> For the Kiosk mode I see two different places for timeout 
> >>> settings. I have copied them in below. My issue is that I am
> >>> seeing a lot of Login Greeter/Idle Sessions and I think the first
> >>> "Timeout" setting should be set lower, but I don't want to
> >>> disconnect good sessions.
> >>> 
> 
> If you see sessions that are marked as 'Login Greeter/Idle' in 
> the Sun 
> Ray management web console (or in utsession(1M)), then these are 
> not 
> valid kiosk sessions. A kiosk session should remain in this 
> state only 
> for a very short time. Sessions that are marked as 'Idle' should 
> show a 
> Unix login greeter.
> 
> If these session should be kiosk sessions and show only a black 
> screen, 
> then something in kiosk session setup is failing. You should 
> check the 
> system messages log for 'error' messages from Kiosk Mode.

Yes, I am seeing this, and have googled to no avail.  Any suggestions??

kioskcrit[18355]: [ID 702911 user.error] Error: critical application (pid=18357) exited with non zero status
Oct  7 07:27:22 server kioskcrit[18355]: [ID 702911 user.error] Error: critical application (pid=18357) exited with non zero status
Oct  7 07:27:23 server kiosk:uttsc[26165]: [ID 702911 user.error] /opt/SUNWuttsc/bin/uttsc exited with error code 17 - exiting
Oct  7 07:27:23 server kiosk:uttsc[26165]: [ID 702911 user.error] /opt/SUNWuttsc/bin/uttsc exited with error code 17 - exiting




> 
> A 'Idle' session in that sense will be terminated automatically 
> if it 
> remains disconnected for a certain duration. That timeout is not 
> configurable.
> 
> >>> One here in the admin gui under "Advanced" and "kiosk mode"
> >>> 
> >>> Session:
> >>> 
> >>> Sun Ray Connector for Windows OS 
>  >>>
>  >>> Timeout:
> >>> 
> >>> 24000 seconds
> >> 
> >> This is for the timeout the session needs to be keep on disconeect.
> >>  After timeout reached the disconnected session will be 
> killed.> 
> > 
> > I don't quite understand this, can you explain this in some more
> > detail? >
> > 
> 
> This timeout generally determines how long a kiosk session - in 
> your 
> case the "Sun Ray Connector for Windows OS" kiosk session - will 
> stay 
> 'alive' in a disconnected state.
> 
> If the session has remained disconnected for the given time, it 
> will be 
> terminated. If the session is connected to again before the 
> timeout has 
> elapsed, nothing happens. A timeout of 0 indicates that the 
> session is 
> terminated immediately when disconnected. An empty value is used 
> to 
> request that the session is never terminated due to being 
> disconnected.
> The Sun Ray management web console and various command line 
> tools will 
> indicate sessions that are considered disconnected. Sessions 
> become 
> disconnected when a card is pulled or inserted in the DTU, when 
> the DTU 
> is powered off or when the network to the server is interrupted.
> 
> >> It should not effect connected sessions.
> >>
> 
> >>> Under that is a place for "Arguments"
> >>> where I see:
> >>>
> >>> -t 3600
> >>>
> >> This is to avoid two minute timeout imposed by WTS.
> >> See the /etc/opt/SUNWkio/sessions/uttsc/README for
> >> more detailed info on this.
> > 
> > So if I understand this correctly using -t 3600 the behavior I 
> could 
> > expect is that every 2 minutes the Windows TS disconnects the 
> > connection, but every 60 minutes (3600 secs) the entire 
> session dies and 
> > is restarted.  Correct?
> > 
> 
> Yes. Note that this only applies to sessions to which a DTU is 
> connected 
>   and that show the Windows login screen. These sessions 
> are not 
> considered 'Idle' by Sun Ray software.
> 
> The two minute timeout of the RDP session for an unused login 
> screen is 
> imposed by the Windows TS. AFAIK it is not possible to change or 
> disable 
> this timeout on the WTS side.
> 
> To avoid frequent, visually irritating session restarts, the 
> "Sun Ray 
> Connector for Windows OS" kiosk session will continuously 
> restart the 
> Sun Ray Windows Connector when this happens. After the -t 
> timeout has 
> elapsed, the kiosk session will exit and is restarted in order 
> to allow 
> configuration changes to be picked up and to allow Sun Ray load 
> balancing to occur.
> 
> The kiosk session will not try to restart the SRWC, if it 
> detects that 
> the session has become disconnected when the Windows Connector 
> exits 
> (for example after the 2 minute timeout). In that case it will 
> exit (and 
> won't be restarted) independent of any timeout parameters.
> 
> HTH
> 
> - Jörg
> 
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