AnonymousURL caused MAXSESSIONS
Library Information Access Team <[email protected]>
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This morning we had a case of a user's browser going haywire and causing a database with an AnonymousURL directive to spawn thousands of sessions, which quickly hit our MAXSESSIONS 6000 limit. The same thing happened about a year ago (different database, same issue). To prevent this recurring we've turned out MAXSESSIONS up to a lofty 100000 and set up a Splunk alert that emails our team as soon as EZproxy breaches 6000. Two questions for the collective wisdom of this list: 1. Has anyone else experienced the problem I described? 2. Is setting MAXSESSIONS at 100000 as a risk mitigation strategy going to cause something else to fail? Note that normally we don't get above 3000, I initially put 6000 as a high number but raising to 100000 is just to buy us more time if this happens again. Thanks, Jai Parker | Information Access Librarian QUT Library | Division of Administrative Services QUT | Kelvin Grove | D Block, Level 1 | Victoria Park Rd Kelvin Grove QLD 4059 P: 07 3138 3381 | E: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> | www.qut.edu.au<http://www.qut.edu.au/> ABN: 83 791 724 622 | CRICOS No. 00213J ******************************************************************** If you wish to stop receiving messages from EZPROXY-L or otherwise amend your preferences, you can do so <a href="https://www.oclc.org/forms/internet-subscription.en.html">here</a>. Or email [email protected] including the relevant text below in the body of the email: • To unsubscribe: "unsubscribe EZPROXY-L" • To receive EZPROXY-L in digest form: "set EZPROXY-L digest" • To set your options to no mail: "set EZPROXY-L nomail" • To receive these messages in the future "set EZPROXY-L mail" To contact the list owners directly please send your message to [email protected]. If you unsubscribe from EZPROXY-L, you will no longer be able to participate in any of its features, including the public forum. To unsubscribe from all OCLC marketing email communications (including all OCLC listervs, OCLC Connect emails, OCLC event notifications, product/service/cooperative updates and newsletters), please email us at [email protected].