SD-WAN

If you get a message like this one in your 128T conductor node, when logging into conductor PCLI

This warning indicates that there are too many users logged into conductor.  The default warning threshold is set to 4 logins.  This is tracked to prevent performance degradation.  The warning is adjustable, but I wouldn’t set it much higher, especially in versions of conductor <4.2.X.

To analyze the existing logins, first list out all the logins with the following command (with output below):

[root@SDWAN-Conductor1 ~]# ps -eaf | grep pdmTransportAgent

admin 2092 2079 0 2019 ? 00:17:00 /usr/bin/pdmTransportAgent
admin 10786 10758 0 Feb18 ? 00:00:45 /usr/bin/pdmTransportAgent
admin 12171 12158 0 2019 ? 00:16:21 /usr/bin/pdmTransportAgent
root 14917 13318 0 13:48 pts/7 00:00:00 grep --color=auto pdmTransportAgent
admin 25800 25785 0 2019 ? 00:32:24 /usr/bin/pdmTransportAgent
admin 26213 26212 0 Feb19 ? 00:00:30 /usr/bin/pdmTransportAgent --startup-log-level Info
admin 30898 30870 0 2019 ? 00:15:10 /usr/bin/pdmTransportAgent
admin 31519 31506 0 Jan03 ? 00:12:23 /usr/bin/pdmTransportAgent

Notice that a lot of these are very old, even going back to 2019. I would occasionally clean this up by using the “kill -9 <pid>” command (no need to kill the process that was launched with the "--startup-log-level info" option.  For example, after running a few kill commands on this particular system a few times, the output of the ps command looks a lot better:

[root@SDWAN-Conductor1 ~]# ps -eaf | grep pdmTransportAgent
root 17422 13318 0 13:56 pts/7 00:00:00 grep --color=auto pdmTransportAgent
admin 26213 26212 0 Feb19 ? 00:00:30 /usr/bin/pdmTransportAgent --startup-log-level Info

If you issue the same command with an additional parm as such:

ps -eaf | grep pdmTransportAgent | wc -l

you’ll get the total process count without the actual process records.