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If the login concurrent-session clear-line enable command is configured, you are provided with

an option to clear any of your existing sessions after a successful login authentication. When you reach the

maximum concurrent session limit, you can still login by clearing any of your existing sessions.

Example

The following example shows how to limit the number of concurrent sessions that any user can have to four:

Dell(conf)#login concurrent-session limit 4

Dell(conf)#

The following example shows how to use the login concurrent-session clear-line enable

command.

Dell(conf)#login concurrent-session clear-line enable

Dell(conf)#

When you try to login, the following message appears with all your existing concurrent sessions, providing an

option to close any one of the existing sessions:

$ telnet 10.11.178.14

Trying 10.11.178.14...

Connected to 10.11.178.14.

Escape character is '^]'.

Password:

Current sessions for user admin:

Line Location

2 vty 0 10.14.1.97

3 vty 1 10.14.1.97

Clear existing session? [line number/Enter to cancel]:

When you try to create more than the permitted number of sessions, the following message appears, prompting

you to close one of your existing sessions. You must close any of your existing sessions to login to the system .

$ telnet 10.11.178.14

Trying 10.11.178.14...

Connected to 10.11.178.14.

Escape character is '^]'.

Password:

Maximum concurrent sessions for the user reached.

Current sessions for user admin:

Line Location

2 vty 0 10.14.1.97

3 vty 1 10.14.1.97

4 vty 2 10.14.1.97

5 vty 3 10.14.1.97

Clear existing session? [line number/Enter to cancel]:

Related Commands

show login statistics — Displays login statistics of users who have used the console or virtual terminal lines to log

in to the system.

Enable and configure user login statistics on console and virtual terminal lines.

Syntax

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