Same gateway process running 2 times
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Same gateway process running 2 times

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Article ID: 131342

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STARTER PACK-7 CA Rapid App Security CA API Gateway

Issue/Introduction

We have a server in which same process is running twice and due to that, it is consuming memory and CPU. This leads to performance issues.

Ideally there should be only one gateway process. 

Example ps output: 

gateway 1439 1324 17 Jan08 ? 17-05:31:23 /opt/SecureSpan/JDK/bin/java -Dcom.l7tech.server.home=/opt/SecureSpan/Gateway/node/default -Dcom.ncipher.provider.announcemode=auto -Dcom.ncipher.provider.disable=Alg.Alias.Cipher.AES,Alg.Alias.KeyGenerator.AES,Cipher.AESWrap,Cipher.Rijndael,KeyGenerator.Rijndael -Dcom.l7tech.ncipher.position=0 -Djava.ext.dirs=/opt/SecureSpan/JDK/jre/lib/ext:/opt/SecureSpan/Gateway/runtime/lib/ext -Dcom.l7tech.common.security.jceProviderEngineName=ncipher -Dcom.l7tech.server.siteminder.enabled=true -server -Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true -Djava.security.policy=/opt/SecureSpan/Gateway/runtime/etc/ssg.policy -Djava.security.egd=file:/dev/./urandom -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -Dsun.net.inetaddr.ttl=30 -Djava.awt.headless=true -XX:CompileThreshold=1500 -Dcom.l7tech.server.defaultClusterHostname=ssg2ksc6 -Djava.util.Arrays.useLegacyMergeSort=true -Dorg.apache.xml.dtm.DTMManager=org.apache.xml.dtm.ref.DTMManagerDefault -Dorg.apache.xerces.xni.parser.XMLParserConfiguration=org.apache.xerces.parsers.XIncludeAwareParserConfiguration -Xmx21879024k -Xss256k -XX:+UseParallelOldGC -XX:+UseCompressedOops -Dcom.l7tech.server.transport.reservedPorts=7001,7100 -XX:+PrintGCDetails -XX:+PrintGCDateStamps -XX:+UseGCLogFileRotation -XX:NumberOfGCLogFiles=10 -XX:GCLogFileSize=20M -Xloggc:var/logs/ssg_gc.log -XX:MaxPermSize=256M -Dcom.l7tech.server.home="/opt/SecureSpan/Gateway/node/default" -Dcom.l7tech.server.processControllerPresent=true -Dcom.l7tech.server.processControllerCert=/opt/SecureSpan/Controller/var/run/pc.cer -Dcom.l7tech.server.processControllerIpAddress=::1 -Dcom.l7tech.server.processControllerPort=8765 -Djava.util.logging.config.class=com.l7tech.server.log.JdkLogConfig -Dcom.l7tech.server.log.console=true -jar /opt/SecureSpan/Gateway/runtime/Gateway.jar pc run

gateway 2171 1439 0 Jan08 ? 00:00:02 /opt/nfast/tcl/bin/nfkmcmdadp getinfo Process2: gateway 24976 28220 0 2018 ? 00:00:00 /opt/nfast/tcl/bin/nfkmcmdadp getinfo gateway 28220 1 4 2018 ? 10-11:06:53 /opt/SecureSpan/JDK/bin/java -Dcom.l7tech.server.home=/opt/SecureSpan/Gateway/node/default -Dcom.ncipher.provider.announcemode=auto -Dcom.ncipher.provider.disable=Alg.Alias.Cipher.AES,Alg.Alias.KeyGenerator.AES,Cipher.AESWrap,Cipher.Rijndael,KeyGenerator.Rijndael -Dcom.l7tech.ncipher.position=0 -Djava.ext.dirs=/opt/SecureSpan/JDK/jre/lib/ext:/opt/SecureSpan/Gateway/runtime/lib/ext -Dcom.l7tech.common.security.jceProviderEngineName=ncipher -Dcom.l7tech.server.siteminder.enabled=true -server -Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true -Djava.security.policy=/opt/SecureSpan/Gateway/runtime/etc/ssg.policy -Djava.security.egd=file:/dev/./urandom -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -Dsun.net.inetaddr.ttl=30 -Djava.awt.headless=true -XX:CompileThreshold=1500 -Dcom.l7tech.server.defaultClusterHostname=ssg2ksc6 -Djava.util.Arrays.useLegacyMergeSort=true -Dorg.apache.xml.dtm.DTMManager=org.apache.xml.dtm.ref.DTMManagerDefault -Dorg.apache.xerces.xni.parser.XMLParserConfiguration=org.apache.xerces.parsers.XIncludeAwareParserConfiguration -Xmx21879024k -Xss256k -XX:+UseParallelOldGC -XX:+UseCompressedOops -Dcom.l7tech.server.transport.reservedPorts=7001,7100 -XX:+PrintGCDetails -XX:+PrintGCDateStamps -XX:+UseGCLogFileRotation -XX:NumberOfGCLogFiles=10 -XX:GCLogFileSize=20M -Xloggc:var/logs/ssg_gc.log -XX:MaxPermSize=256M -Dcom.l7tech.server.home="/opt/SecureSpan/Gateway/node/default" -Dcom.l7tech.server.processControllerPresent=true -Dcom.l7tech.server.processControllerCert=/opt/SecureSpan/Controller/var/run/pc.cer -Dcom.l7tech.server.processControllerIpAddress=::1 -Dcom.l7tech.server.processControllerPort=8765 -Djava.util.logging.config.class=com.l7tech.server.log.JdkLogConfig -Dcom.l7tech.server.log.console=true -jar /opt/SecureSpan/Gateway/runtime/Gateway.jar pc run 
 

Environment

API Gateway 8.x

Resolution

The issue is addressed in API versions 9.x. 
API versions 8.x  are no longer supported as of April 30, 2019 
https://support.ca.com/us/product-content/status/announcement-documents/2018/ca-api-gateway-8-x-eos-announcement.html