SSH not closing

[Richard Munn]

I have a custom tool that runs on client systems. Managers of those systems have complained that there appears to be SSH connections coming from the CMS that never close. I have looked at this and sure enough if a tool (custom or not) is launched and an SSH connection is opened it never seems to get shutdown.

Is mxdtf meant to close idle SSH connections? Is there some way the tool(s) can force close the connection when they exit?

[qun · Accepted solution]

Once an ssh connection is established, dtf will keep it open for a while so that subsequent operations can be carried out over the same connection without the need to open a new ssh connection. How long to keep the ssh connection open is configurable in the globalsettings.prop. The default value is 1 hour.