Auto logoff setting?

[samuel_34]

I recently upgraded our SIM installation from v5.0 SP5 to v5.1 SP1 following the security warning from HP. However, since then the system appears to time out my web session, and auto logs me out :( This didn't happen before and I'm struggling to find where to change the setting - can anyone help? Its not a serious issue, just annoying!

Thanks,

[Daniel Leblanc · Accepted solution]

When the timeout option is configured to monitor, the HP Systems Insight Manager session remains alive and is continually refreshed, unless you close the browser or navigate to another site. If you close the browser, the session is closed immediately. If you navigate to another site, HP Systems Insight Manager logs you out after 20 minutes. This option is the default, and appears in the globalsettings.props file as EnableSessionKeepAlive=true.

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When the timeout option is configured to remain active, the HP Systems Insight Manager session remains alive as long as you are actively working in HP Systems Insight Manager. However, HP Systems Insight Manager ends your session and logs you out after 20 minutes of inactivity.

You can change the timeout settings to monitor or active by editing the globalsettings.props file.

To configure the timeout setting to active:

Open the globalsettings.props file.

On a Windows operating system, the globalsettings.props file is located in the install directory/config folder.

On an HP-UX/Linux operating system, the globalsettings.props file is located in the /etc/opt/mx/config directory.

Change EnableSessionKeepAlive=true to EnableSessionKeepAlive=false.

Click FileSave.

The updates are saved.

Close the globalsettings.props file.

To change the default timeout:

From the HP Systems Insight Manager directory, navigate to /hpwebadmin/webapps/MxSessionTimeout/WEB-INF/ and open web.xml.

Edit the minutes from the default of 20 minutes to the number of minutes you want.

Save the globalsettings.Props and the web.xml files.

The updates are saved.

Close the web.xml file.

[samuel_34]

Excellent - many thanks, that worked great :)

[Daniel Leblanc]

My pleasure

[samuel_34]

Well, I thought this had been cured, but I was mistaken :(

Insight 5.1 seems intent upon closing sessions regardless of user activity, and with differing intervals. I can be actively scrolling down the server list, or doing something else that requires input, and Insight will end the session and log me out. Needless to say this is getting very annoying. As mentioned in my previous messages, this never used to happen with v5.0 - it started with a fresh installation of 5.1 on a fresh windows 2003 SP2 server.

I've tried using both Firefox 2.0.0.4 and IE7 in case it was a browser issue, but it happens with both browsers.

Any ideas would be gratefully received.