So I was working from a locked down Windows server in a remote site. And then I had issues with Edge and Internet Explorer. In the end I had used up all sessions in the Firewall. I didn’t want to wait until my sessions got diconnected. So what to do.

maximum number of allowed sessions reached

So lets fix this. First log into the firewall using SSH. Then start the CLI using the command cli.

First lets list what users are currently connected, just to make sure we know who we are kicking out.

root@bia> show system users
10:31PM  up 4 days,  4:02, 5 users, load averages: 0.37, 0.35, 0.35
USER     TTY      FROM                              LOGIN@  IDLE WHAT
root     p0       192.168.129.11                   10:21PM     - cli
root     jweb1    192.168.129.11                   9:38PM     53
root     jweb2    192.168.129.11                   9:38PM     52
root     jweb3    192.168.129.11                   9:38PM     52
root     jweb4    192.168.129.11                   9:39PM     52

So now we know when I managed to screw this up and from where.. but does that really help? Then we can go ahead and kick the session one by one, or all. The following options exist and can use the data from above.

root@bia> request system logout user ?
Possible completions:
  <user>               Name of user
root@bia> request system logout pid ?
Possible completions:
  <pid>                Management process ID for user
root@bia> request system logout terminal ?
Possible completions:
  <terminal>           Terminal user is logged in to
root@bia> request system logout all?
Possible completions:
  all                  Logout all sessions owned by user