Centrify causes "Too many open files" errors

Issue

• Server experiencing an issue where it seems to hold sockets open indefinitely eventually running system out of resources:

lsof | grep -i socket | awk '{print $3}' | sort | uniq -c
      9 batchjob
     25 dbus
     80 hpsmh
     32 mona
      5 ntp
     18 postfix
    519 root
      4 rpc
     14 splunk
     11 useracct
    320 weblogic

• Applications are failing with "Too many open files" errors:

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tar: AWR_PROD15/servers/AWR_PROD15_MS3/tmp/_WL_internal/samlacs: Cannot savedir: Too many open files
tar: AWR_PROD15/servers/AWR_PROD15_MS3/tmp/_WL_internal/samlits_cc: Cannot savedir: Too many open files
tar: AWR_PROD15/servers/AWR_PROD15_MS3/tmp/WebServiceUtils.ser: Cannot open: Too many open files
tar: AWR_PROD15/servers/AWR_PROD15_MS3/tmp/.internal: Cannot savedir: Too many open files
tar: AWR_PROD15/servers/AWR_PROD15_MS3/security: Cannot savedir: Too many open files
tar: AWR_PROD15/servers/AWR_PROD15_MS3/logs: Cannot savedir: Too many open files
tar: AWR_PROD15/startWebLogic.sh: Cannot open: Too many open files
AWR_PROD15/logs
tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors