Nexus switch ssh timeouts

[sai shiva prasad]

Hello everyone,

We are seeing ssh timeouts in nexus 5k switches. We have a configuration saying ssh to timeout after 16 users after 5 minutes. But irrespective of the user count it is timing out. 

line console
line vty
session-limit 16
exec-timeout 5

Everytime we see this issue the only fix we would apply is by disabling and enabling ssh feature back. Is this something a bug in cisco nexus platform ?? did any one faced these kind of issues in nexus ??? please advise

[Jon Marshall]

As far as I know the session limit is not tied to the session timeout so it doesn't matter how many users are logged in, the sessions will timeout after 5 minutes of inactivity. 

Jon

[luis_cordova]

Hi @sai shiva prasad 

These two commands work separately, without depending on each other.

That is, you will have up to 16 connections, independent of the inactivity time and the connections will be terminated after 5 minutes, independent of the connected users.

https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/switches/datacenter/nexus5000/sw/fundamentals/521n11/b_5k_Fund_Config_521N11/b_5k_Fund_Config_521N11_chapter_0110.html#con_1180209

Regards