console multiple connections

[StefanoChiappin]

Hi,

please can anyone explain me what does it mean the yellow bar which appears whenever I'm using a VM console inside Vi client ? It says :"Number of active connections has changed. There are now <n> active connections to this console.", with <n> an always increasing number. But I'm the only one using those VM's, nobody else is connecting except me. What does it mean ?

Bye, Stefano

[alanrenouf]

This normally means someone else has the console to the machine open too, if you are the only one using these are you right clicking on the VM's and opening the console or are you using the console tab on the VM's in VC ?

Sounds like its not closing your original connection to the console ?!?

Alan

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[StefanoChiappin]

I only use the Console tab (between Alarms and Permissions).

And if I close that warning message, it re-opens again after few seconds with a number increased by 1. How to avoid this annoying feature ?

[alanrenouf]

That is rather strange, it should only be a running total of how many connections are open to that console.

Are you using VC ? It might be an idea to give the VC service a quick restart and see if this clears the numbers, are you sure you are the only one accessing the console, you don't have any nosey colleagues :smileygrin:

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[StefanoChiappin]

> That is rather strange

Yes, I agree. The strange thing is that this message appears while I'm normally working on the console, and not during logon or logoff or sutdown/restart.

> Are you using VC ?

Yes, I have a VirtualCenter 2.5 installed on a server, and I use VI client from my workstation, connecting to VC. I already restarted the service, but it happens again. For sure I'm the only one to log in those VM's, because I'm the only one to be able to do this 😄

Bye, Stefano

[alanrenouf]

Surely all it does is count the connections over that particular port from a unique IP address, you dont have any strange network configurations or anything do you ?

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[alanrenouf]

Just out of interest, if you click Administration from the toolbar and then select sessions, how many sessions does it htink are open ?

Alan

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[StefanoChiappin]

It says: 1 active connection and 0 idle. The entry in the list is "this session".

Currently, on 1 VM, I have it says there are 5 active connection on the console, while the VI client is only one, and the console tab is only one, so I can't understand how to open 5 concurrent console connections !

This happens very randomly, either on windows or on linux VMs.

[alanrenouf]

How about using the VI client from another machine, perhaps the server or another client machine ?

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[StefanoChiappin]

I can try from the server, but as I already told, the warning appears very randomly...