Managing Sessions

For ports with session management terminals, the kind of terminal at the port further determines the port’s session limit, where the access server port can support up to eight terminal sessions. However, terminal devices typically support a maximum of less than eight terminal sessions. The documentation for the terminal device should tell you how many terminal sessions the device can have. Set the port session limit to a value in that range.

Displaying Session Information

You can display a line of information about the current status of a port or ports and a list of the sessions on the port or ports. To display a summary of session information, use the SHOW SESSIONS command. If you wish to display a continuous update of the sessions, use the MONITOR SESSIONS command.

Use the ALL keyword instead of a port number to receive equivalent information about the sessions for all access server ports. For ports set up as a LAT service or Telnet listener, the user name is displayed as “(Remote)”.

Example: SHOW SESSIONS Display

The following example shows how to generate a sessions display for ports 1 and 2. The first line of the sessions display begins with the port number and port user name. On the same line, the display shows the port mode (either Local Mode or Session Mode) and the current session number.

The next few lines in the display consist of active-session information. One line of information appears for each active session on the port. When a session is terminated, the information for the session is removed and replaced by the information below it in the display.

Local> SHOW SESSIONS PORT 1,2

Port 1: Rich Smith

Local Mode

Current Session: Session 2

- Session 1: Queued at 3

LAT

TIMESHARE

- Session 2: Connected

TELNET

DEVELOP

- Session 3: Connecting

TELNET

BERGIL

- Session 4: Disconnected

LAT

DOCUMENT (PEAR)

- Session 5: Disconnecting

LAT

TEST

Port 2: card

Session Mode

 

 

Current session:

Session 1

 

 

- Session 1: Connected

SLIP

 

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