ActiveSpaces secure cluster may go unresponsive if any plain socket (non-SSL or non-AS component) AS connections are trying to join secure cluster (as-agent's SSL Ports)

ActiveSpaces secure cluster may go unresponsive if any plain socket (non-SSL or non-AS component) AS connections are trying to join secure cluster (as-agent's SSL Ports)

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Article ID: KB0092886

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Description

Description:
If any plain socket connection from ASMM, BW Client  and JAVA API try to connect secure cluster may cause ActiveSpaces cluster to go hang or pause for 3- 5 sec. This issue cause operation timeout / protocol timeout on client side. In this case we may not notice any cluster members disconnect from the cluster, but any plain socket continuously try to connect may cause cluster to hang or pause for shorter time span.

How to avoid (Recommendations) :

  1. Make sure to use security token file while connecting to secure cluster
  2. if user want use ASMM-UI, share only ASMM-Console not ASMM-Admin UI.
  3. Change default ASMM ports.
  4. Apply IP table rules to avoid unnecessary connections to secure cluster.
  5. Enable firewalls on the ActiveSpaces hosts for the ActiveSpaces ports to only accept connections from the other known ActiveSpaces hosts (for both servers and clients)

     

Issue/Introduction

ActiveSpaces secure cluster may go unresponsive if any plain socket (non-SSL or non-AS component) AS connections are trying to join secure cluster (as-agent's SSL Ports)