Robin Moffatt • 3/5/2010

Who's been at the cookie jar? EBS-BI authentication and Load Balancers

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Article details diagnosing a sudden OBIEE authentication failure where users logged in via EBS were immediately logged out. The root cause was an F5 BIG-IP load balancer issuing session cookies with a past expiration date due to an incorrect system clock, breaking server affinity and causing session variable errors.

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