How to stop browse session?

Unless there is network connection which is kept alive (can be verified via netstat for example), then restarting NW is the only way out.  I have seen this few times myself, but never to go on forever (well, I did in older version) and these are harmless so unless you don't like them for specific reason, you can just ignore it.

Hi Zlatko,

As Hrvoje said this is not harmful, but please note that you will also see those "browsing sessions" when Oracle backups are running and if RMAN initiated backups are launched, Oracle will run the cross-check, so during the cross-check operations (Oracle trying to verify that the data in NW is consistent) the browsing sessions will also appear. This depends on how Oracle is configured.

Thank you.

Carlos.

Hi Carlos

I am experiencing the same issue with SAP, but my browse sessions just stay there. I have sessions that are now 4 days old, after the server was restarted.

This is on NW 8.0.0.7

NMSAP 4.2

Thanks

Kobus

Server and client are on the same version?

All on 8.0.0.7 yes.

I assume you just went from something to 8.0.0.7 right?  Since I do not use nw8 yet, I will remain in guessing land here, but few hints/questions:

- is this true for all SAP sessions? is it only SAP?

- existence of these is related to jobdb to my knowledge - which has changed in nw8.  This, if I'm right, indicates certain incompatibility between either jobdb and streams by NMSAP where fix can be on either of the sides

- another possibility is that you have retention for jobdb lower than your stream runs thus it is left there in limbo state (I doubt this is possible)

I suspect jobdb and NMSAP 4.2 having wrong handshake (if this is the case only with SAP) so most likely you will need ticket to get patch (and most likely one might already exist).

Something that I've noticed is that it only stays for 5 days.

There is a SR open, I will update once I have any feedback from them.

- Is perhaps your jobdb retention 5 days?

- do you also see sessions in netstat output (should be visible via lsof too)

Jobsdb retention is set for 3 days.

I couldn't check netstat, as I not on-site anymore.

I will ask the customer to check for me.

Regards

Kobus Strydom

+27 71 680 8142

Hi Kobus,

has that ever been resolved? I'm seeing the same issue in NetWorker 8.2.1.4, with different browsing sessions that remain in the monitoring browse sessions visable up to 4 days (JobsDB Retention=168).

How about the SR you mentioned - what was the summary there?

Many thanks and kind regards,

Sandra

I had 8.2.1.4, but I never this issue (on Linux).  Perhaps is platform specific.  I also use much lower retention of job DB (72). Check on server side (or/and client) with netstat -a if you still see network connection between server and client for which you see browsing session.