RSA Authentication Manager 8.x web tier shows session expired error
Originally Published: 2015-02-04
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Applies To
RSA Product Set: SecurID
RSA Product/Service Type: Authentication Manager
Version(s): 8.x
Issue
- When there is more than one web tier in a deployment and trying to access the Self-Service Console using the hostname of the virtual hostname and Load Balancer, it returns a message of "session expired."
- The session expired message appears after entering the user ID on the login page rather than completing the login procedure
- The issue continues to happen after restarting services on the web tier and for Authentication Manager.
Cause
- The load balancer is configured as recommended by our guides to use round robin access; however the load balancer is misconfigured to use round robin access per request.
- Because of this a time out occurs and the session shows as expired
Resolution
- Configure the load balancer with round robin access. but per session access, meaning each user session is handled by ONLY one web tier server.
- Configure the load balancer with "sticky sessions" so that it works correctly.
- Confirm that Make sure network connections are properly configured.
Workaround
As a work around, keep only one web tier server running until the system is configured as documented above.
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