I have installed a web application on a clustered environment where the load is balanced by an F5 device. Unfortunately I do not know exactly its model, but hopefully this information is not necessary to answer my question.
We were trying to troubleshoot an issue with the session timeout, and I saw in the admin interface of the LB a parameter that specifies the "Persistence Timeout" for the stickiness of the session. For the web application to work, the load balancer should be configured to use sticky sessions, but this parameter was set to 8 minutes.
Does this mean that the stickiness of the session will time out after 8 minutes even if the user is not idle?
There was also another parameter in the admin console that was the "Session idle timeout". This is why I am thinking that the other parameter is a different timeout.