Layer7 API Management

  • 1.  API GW 9.1 Unintended Restarts in production

    Posted Mar 12, 2017 07:30 PM

    We have been witnessing unintended restarts of the nodes. 

     

     

    Layer 7 64bit Virtual Appliance - Version 8.0  50 GB disk 2 GB RAM 2 CPU

    - Virtual CPU's 4

    - Real Memory - 2 GB

    - Logical disk size - 50 GB

    - CPU core clock frequency 2.8 GHz

     

    As per the CA API Gateway 9.1 recommendations, we are planning to increase the memory to 4 GB.


    Minimum requirements for a host machine running the Software form factor of the CA API Gateway:

    Requirement Minimum
    Networking one IPv4 or IPv6 interface
    Processor Dual core processor, 2 GHz or faster
    Memory 4 GB (8 GB or above recommended)

     

    The process id 61936 

     

    MEM  

    VSZ  

    RSS

    60.9

    4947896

    1166940

     

    gateway  61936  5.4 60.9 4947896 1166940 ?     Sl   02:13  24:58              \_ /opt/SecureSpan/JDK/bin/java -Dcom.l7tech.server.home=/opt/SecureSpan/Gateway/node/default -Djava.ext.dirs=/opt/SecureSpan/JDK/jre/lib/ext:/opt/SecureSpan/Gateway/runtime/lib/ext -Dcom.l7tech.server.siteminder.enabled=true -server -Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true -Djava.security.policy=/opt/SecureSpan/Gateway/runtime/etc/ssg.policy -Djava.security.egd=file:/dev/./urandom -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -Dsun.net.inetaddr.ttl=30 -Djava.awt.headless=true -XX:CompileThreshold=1500 -Dcom.l7tech.server.defaultClusterHostname=vanhq1coap61ssg.amfam.com -Djava.util.Arrays.useLegacyMergeSort=true -Xmx957294k -Xss256k -XX:+UseParallelOldGC -XX:+UseCompressedOops -Dcom.l7tech.server.transport.reservedPorts=7001,7100 -XX:MaxPermSize=256M -Dcom.l7tech.server.home="/opt/SecureSpan/Gateway/node/default" -Dcom.l7tech.server.processControllerPresent=true -Dcom.l7tech.server.processControllerCert=/opt/SecureSpan/Controller/var/run/pc.cer -Dcom.l7tech.server.processControllerIpAddress=::1 -Dcom.l7tech.server.processControllerPort=8765 -Djava.util.logging.config.class=com.l7tech.server.log.JdkLogConfig -Dcom.l7tech.server.log.console=true -jar /opt/SecureSpan/Gateway/runtime/Gateway.jar pc run

     

    Any additional inputs related to Memory settings/recommendations are much appreciated.



  • 2.  Re: API GW 9.1 Unintended Restarts in production
    Best Answer

    Broadcom Employee
    Posted Mar 13, 2017 10:36 AM

    Hey Murti,

     

    As you indicated, running a production gateway on a node with just 2 GB of RAM is extremely low

    and as a first step I would certainly allocate sufficient resources to this server and see if that helps the situation.

     

    If you then continue to experience this situation once sufficient RAM, CPU's etc are allocated to the gateway

    then I would suggest to kick off a support issue so it can be investigated further.

     

    Hope that helps.

     

    Daren