Re: Scheduling PIX commands

["Ian Rarity" <Ian.Rarity () espc com>]

> > > "Lord Sporkton" <lordsporkton () gmail com> 05/08/2008 03:19 >>>
> I know its a good idea to be with in reboot distance of a device if
> you are changing the configuration, but if all you are doing is
> clearing the xlate table, i dont see how that could go very wrong.

Neither did I, until the first time I tried it on our live system.

> I could be wrong, but wouldnt 99% of your connections time out and
> clear from the xlate table within 24 hours anyway? If you have to
wait
> till the middle of the night anyway, why not just let it ride
out?(not
> sure if thats acceptable or not in your situation)

That would be the case for most normal apps, yes.  However, the
lumbering JBoss-based monstrosity that was my main concern for this job
doesn't like it at all, and needs the actual application to be restarted
before it'll start playing nice again.  I ended up using a cronned
expect script, for what it's worth.

Ta,
IR.

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