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Status Future consideration
Workspace Sterling Secure Proxy
Categories Installation & Upgrade
Created by Guest
Created on May 22, 2019

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"Soft Stop" functionality for SSP engines for upgrading without service interruptions

Currently even though we have multiple SSP engines it isn't possible to perform a true "high availability" upgrade of the engines because anybody who is connected to an individual SSP engine will be disconnected when the engine is taken down for patching, even though the other engine is still online and available.

We need to be able to shut down engines in a manner that allows "in-flight" connections to finish while preventing new connections from starting,

What is your industry? Automotive
How will this idea be used?

Upgrade SSP with 2+ SSP engines:

1. Shut down first SSP engine.  Engine will immediately stop listening for new connections which will cause Load balancers to redirect new inbound connecitons to other nodes.  Existing sessions are allowed to complete before engine completes shut down.

2.Upgrade first engine to new version

3. Restart first engine

4. Repeat steps 1-3 for each remaining engine.

 

This allows upgrades to be completed with no interruptions to our end-users.  Current design results in many users being disconnected mid-transfer at the moment the SSP engines are stopped.
  • Guest
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    |     Nov 16, 2022

    Hi Vijay,

    I just want to bring another use case in to this idea. Any SFTP adapter configuration changes requires a SFTP server adapter restart, when user choose "stop" adapter, adapter should stop accepting new sessions and allow the existing sessions to finish with in a timelimit.

    Thanks,

    Rama.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Nov 11, 2022

    Hi Vijay,

    This functionality is a must have in certified container world; I want to balance it by adding timelimit so it gives that time to finish existing sessions as much as possible; OCP cluster upgrades may stop the worker nodes by evicting the pods running in a worker node, inclusion of this functionality will be less disruptive;

    Thanks,

    Rama.

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