Question on Service Debugger behavior when Policy Manager and Gateway are disconnected

Article Id: 76436

Status: Published

Updated On: 03-04-2018 22:58

Products:

STARTER PACK-7 CA Rapid App Security CA API Gateway CA API Gateway

Issue/Introduction:

Suppose that following situation when using Service Debugger from Policy Manager:

Step 1. Service Debugger is started for a service.
Step 2. A request message is sent to the endpoint of the service.
Step 3. The debugger is stopping at a breakpoint.
Step 4. Connection between Policy Manager and API Gateway gets lost due to some network error.

In the Gateway node, will the service and the attached debugger be terminated?

Environment:

API Gateway 9.2

Resolution:

Yes. According to our design specification, there is a clean up task in the SSG that runs periodically that removes debugger sessions that have been inactive for a certain amount of time.

By default, the clean up task runs every 24hr+1min, and terminates debugger sessions which have been inactive for 24hrs.
These values can be overridden in system.properties file by setting properties below.
(1) com.l7tech.server.stepdebug.inactiveSessionCleanIntervalMillis
(2) com.l7tech.server.stepdebug.inactiveSessionTimeoutMillis

Notes:
It's not advisable to do debugging on Production environment.