HTTP 401 error "Login failed: session limit reached"

Symptom

休息你quest or Web UI login attempt returns response code 401 and the response body contains the following text string:

Login failed: session limit reached

Cause

A user attempted to log into the REST API or the Web UI, but that user already has the maximum number of concurrent sessions running.

行动

1. Log out from one of the existing sessions.

   Browsers share a single session cookie across multiple tabs or even windows. However, scripts that POST to the login resource and later do not POST to the logout resource can easily create the maximum number of concurrent sessions.

2. If the session cookie is lost and it is not possible to log out of the session, then wait for the session idle time limit to expire.

   When the session idle timeout expires, the session is terminated automatically.

3. If it is required to stop all HTTPS sessions on the switch instead of waiting for the session idle time limit to expire, you can stop all HTTPS sessions using thehttps-server session close allcommand.

   这个命令停止并启动hpe-restdservice, so using this command affects all existing REST sessions and Web UI sessions.