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E-WAS: How to Change Keep Alive Timeout or Disable Keep Alive in WebSphere 5.1 (Doc ID 640372.1)
Modified: Jan 31, 2014 Type: HOWTO

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APPLIES TO:

PeopleSoft Enterprise PT PeopleTools - Version 8.44 to 8.48 [Release 8.4]

Information in this document applies to any platform.
***Checked for relevance on 31-Jan-2014***

GOAL

How to change WebSphere Keep Alive timeout or disable Keep Alive?

SOLUTION

What is Keep-Alive:

Keep-Alive, or more accurately termed "Persistent Connections" is a default feature of HTTP 1.1 as described here http://www.w3.org
/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616.html.

It allows for the client (generally a web browser) and the web server to maintain an open connection between requests for a specified
period of time. That time period is generally less then 60 seconds. The benefit of a persistent connection is that with each subsequent
request the client and the server do not need to perform the overhead of opening a new connection. Enabling Keep-Alive is generally
recommended, but in some situations it may introduce a problem. Sporadic "The Page cannot be displayed" can be the result of a problem
with Keep-Alive. In situations where Keep-Alive issues are suspected, disabling the web server Keep-Alive or changing the Keep-Alive
timeout will help to determine if the problem is indeed related to connection persistence.

1. For WebSphere 5.1, open Admin console with URL, e.g. http://<machine-name>:9090/admin and log in.
2. In the console navigation tree, click Servers > Application Servers >
server_name > Web Container > HTTP Transport

-Select a host.
-Under Additional Properties select Custom Properties.
-On the Custom Properties page, click New.

a) On the settings page, to change the keep alive timeout, enter the property ConnectionKeepAliveTimeout in the Name field and the value
"120" in the Value field.

b) On the settings page, to disable keep alive, enter the property MaxKeepAliveConnections in the Name field and the value "0" in the Value
field.

Click Apply or OK. After making these changes, you will need to bounce your WebSphere webserver.

REFERENCES:
Document:616794.1 - E-WL: WebLogic 6.1: Steps to Turn Off KeepAlive

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