[c-nsp] How to kill zombie administrative SSH session?

[Andrew Yourtchenko]

On Fri, 6 Jun 2008, Joann Deng wrote:

> By default only 5 ssh sessions are allowed in a single context FWSM. If type "show ssh sessions" it looks like no session is active. But if type "show resource usage resource ssh", see 5 current sessions:
>
> FWSM1# show resource usage resource ssh
> Resource              Current         Peak      Limit        Denied Context
> SSH                         5            5          5           110 System
> FWSM1#
>
> Therefore can no longer access the FWSM via ssh. This is a bug, and can be fixed by upgrading. But is there a way to kill these zombie SSH sessions without upgrading the code or reboot FWSM?

No, unfortunately no other way. (of course if you have the failover pair 
you can make the one to be rebooted to become standby and avoid any 
impact, but I assume you have a single blade).

best regards,
andrew