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Oct 04, 2013

Timeouts on cookie persistence profiles on LTM 10.2.1

Running LTM 3900, software 10.2.1. If I create a persistence cookie from the GUI, the config stanza for it looks like this:

profile persist mytest {
   defaults from cookie
   mode cookie
   cookie mode insert
   cookie name "OHHAI-IAMYOURCOOKIE"
   cookie expiration immediate
   override connection limit disable
}

I don't see a way to specify or modify the timeout from the GUI. If I change the timeout using tmsh, I see the change in my text config but there's no change in the GUI config display.

profile persist mytest {
   defaults from cookie
   mode cookie
   timeout 180
   cookie mode insert
   cookie name "OHHAI-IAMYOURCOOKIE"
   cookie expiration immediate
   override connection limit disable
}

Is this a tmsh-only configuration option? There also doesn't seem to be a way to remove the explicit timeout from the profile config. If I try to remove it using tmsh, I get an error message 'Syntax Error: "timeout" read-only property'. Is there a way to do this?

  • You have run into a bug:

     

    http://support.f5.com/kb/en-us/solutions/public/13000/000/sol13069.html?sr=32321441

     

    "If you use the Configuration utility to update an existing cookie persistence profile, the timeout setting is removed from the profile. As a result, the cookie persistence profile reverts to the default timeout of 180 seconds."

     

    Looks like resolution of this will require installing HF1.

     

    Hope this helps.