These particular ones are admin web sessions from my desktop computer. To my recollection I have kicked off a query to the server and it never returns the output. If I try to cancel the session it will not.
Geoff Gill TSM Administrator NT Systems Support Engineer SAIC E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: (858) 826-4062 Pager: (877) 905-7154 > -----Original Message----- > From: Dave Canan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, March 30, 2003 10:14 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Another returned mail - Repost > > > I was just working on a pmr with a customer that was > reporting similar behavour. One of the level II people > discovered that security port-scanning software against the > machine was causing this to happen. When the port was scanned > ( for example 1500, 1580) a "ghost" session was established > that could not be cancelled. After a period of a few days, > the dsmserv process would hang and stop responding to new sessions. > > After configuring the port scanning software to not scan > these ports, the problem went away. > > > At 07:46 PM 3/29/2003 +0100, you wrote: > >On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 06:49:45AM -0800, Gill, Geoffrey L. wrote: > > > > > I have a TSM server version 5.1.6.2 on an AIX 4.3.3 server. > > > > > > I have, and still do see WebBrowser sessions that hang > out there and > > > cannot be cancelled. I thought that some day this would have been > > > fixed, but I guess not. Does anyone have an open PMR on this > > > yet/STILL? > > > >I see something similar, on both 5.1.6.2 and 5.1.6.3. > Sometimes, I see > >HTTP session (administrative webclient) with a question mark as > >platform. > > > >Also, during a network problem, I see client sessions that last very > >long (due to the network problem), and when I cancel them a sessions > >appears from that client that cannot be cancelled, and remains until > >the server is halted and restarted. So, I cancel a > long-running backup > >session. That works, then the client starts a session to report the > >amount of files backup up, etc. That session never ends, and > cannot be > >cancelled. > > > >-- > >Jurjen Oskam > > > >PGP Key available at http://www.stupendous.org/ > > Dave Canan > TSM Performance > IBM Advanced Technical Support > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >