The server should provide the ability for the administrators to list and kill specific connections from the users. This is specifically useful in following scenarios:

• In large enterprises where the roles of system administration are segregated from database administration and DBA may not have the ability to kill the connections using OS utilities.
• To monitor the active connection at any given point of time. Although the same can be done by analyzing the log file or by enabling audit, none of them are realtime options without building additional facilities around it.

The user may be interested in listing / killing connections for various reasons like forcing the nearest read (to kill the stale connection pool) when a nearest member is brought up online.