Transaction timeout errors in BrightmailLog.log when managing remote SMG scanners
Article ID: 160911
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Issue/Introduction
When managing some Symantec Messaging Gateway (SMG) scanners, you observe that some scheduled tasks or audit log queries fail and leave a timeout error in the BrightmailLog.log
May 13 2014 08:47:31 [BrightmailScheduler_Worker-26] [AgentHelper] ERROR - An agent error has occurred in the following code path:
java.lang.Exception
May 13 2014 08:47:31 [BrightmailScheduler_Worker-26] [AgentHelper] ERROR - --- Host Name: 10.11.12.13
May 13 2014 08:47:31 [BrightmailScheduler_Worker-26] [AgentHelper] ERROR - --- Agent Port Number: 41002
May 13 2014 08:47:31 [BrightmailScheduler_Worker-26] [AgentHelper] ERROR - The response object is null.
May 13 2014 08:47:31 [BrightmailScheduler_Worker-26] [ScriptHelper] ERROR - com.symantec.smg.controlcenter.BrightmailException: The Agent running on 10.11.12.13 is temporarily unreachable. Please check the specified host. ; nested exception is:
java.net.SocketException: Connection timed out
Environment
Messaging Gateway
Cause
Due to the way the SMG Control Center manages connections to the SGM Scanners, some firewalls or other network devices may drop or reset connections which go idle for a significant period of time. When this occurs the next transaction assigned to the dropped or reset connection will fail with either a timeout or network error, depending on how the idle connection was handled by the intervening network hardware.
Resolution
This issue has been addressed with Messaging Gateway 10.6.3. Long lived TCP connections between the Control Center and Scanner hosts now have the TCP keep alive properly set on the connection
Workaround
Ensure that idle TCP connections to port 41002 are not dropped by network hardware for at least 60 minutes as this will reduce the frequency with which a connection is idle long enough to be timed out.
This issue is being investigated by Symantec product engineering and may be addressed via changes to the software in a later release.
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