Hi, We have an issue with the amount of time that a firewall will hold a session open. Currently we have 72 hours, this drives the security and network people crazy but we have a requirement for stuff like very long database queries, launch an ssh or sqlplus session onto an oracle box and the session expires before the query finishes and we lose the result, very bad when you are working on a problem at 3 in the morning and the Damages for not getting the database back up by 5 are in 6 figures.
How does the industry in general deal with this sort of issue?