Managing Sessions; About The Session Manager; Displaying And Clearing Administrative Sessions - Nortel 2360 Configuration Manual

Managing sessions

About the session manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 609

Displaying and clearing administrative sessions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 609

Displaying and clearing network sessions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 613
Displaying and changing network session timers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 620
About the session manager
A session is a related set of communication transactions between an authenticated user (client) and the specific station to
which the client is bound. Packets are exchanged during a session. A WSS supports the following kinds of sessions:
• Administrative sessions—A network administrator managing the WSS
• Network sessions—A network user exchanging traffic with a network through the WSS
The WSS session manager manages the sessions for each client, but does not examine the substance of the traffic.
Clearing (ending) a session deauthenticates the administrator or user from the session and disassociates wireless clients.
Displaying and clearing administrative sessions
To display session information and statistics for a user with administrative access to the WSS, use the following
command:
show sessions {admin | console | telnet [client]}
You can view all administrative sessions, or only the sessions of administrators with access to the WSS through a Telnet
or SSH connection or the console port. You can also display information about administrative Telnet sessions from
remote clients.
To clear administrative sessions, use the following command:
clear sessions {admin | console | telnet [client [session-id]]}
Caution!
Clearing administrative sessions might cause your session to be cleared.
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