There appears to be some sort of timeout regardless of firewalls. If I leave my 
NMC client up on my desktop connected to the GST server, it will timeout after 
some time period. I haven't seen anywhere to change it, but it doesn't go 
through a firewall, so that's not the issue.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: EMC NetWorker discussion [mailto:NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU] 
> On Behalf Of
> dave2 AT CAMBRIDGECOMPUTER DOT COM
> Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2013 4:33 PM
> To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
> Subject: Re: [Networker] gstd equivalent to NSR_KEEPALIVE_WAIT
>
> Hi,
>
> My read of the issue is actually NMC client to GST server, not GST server
> to NSR Server. The 172 IP number below (not the real IP number) is a
> system running the NMC GUI.
>
> Your idea of the firewall update is a good one. Unfortunately, the site
> I'm working with outsource their firewall, and it can take weeks to update
> it. So we figured we'd see if there was another solution first.
>
> Thanks Stan.
>
> --Dave
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stanley R. Horwitz [mailto:stan AT temple DOT edu]
> Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2013 4:29 PM
> To: EMC NetWorker discussion; <dave2 AT CAMBRIDGECOMPUTER DOT COM>
> Subject: Re: [Networker] gstd equivalent to NSR_KEEPALIVE_WAIT
>
> Sorry if this sounds obvious, but your best option is to put the NMC
> server on the same side of the firewall as your NetWorker server unless
> your firewall can be configured to never drop the port connections it
> needs. I do not know of anything like NSR_KEEPALIVE_WAIT for NMC.
>
> On Feb 6, 2013, at 3:36 PM, <dave2 AT CAMBRIDGECOMPUTER DOT COM>
>  wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > Does anyone know if there is an equivalent to NSR_KEEPALIVE_WAIT for
> > the NMC GUI to gstd connection?
> >
> > We are seeing RPC errors in the gstd.log on the NMC server:
> >
> > .
> >
> > 39078 02/06/13 13:46:48  0 0 5 2347 1109 0 sn8 gstd RPC error:
> > Aborting client c
> >
> > onnection from 172.28.1.25; why = Connection timed out