Both the Dashboard and the Operations Center server to which the Dashboard has established a connection times out based on inactivity.
The Dashboard portlets attempt to reconnect to a server that has timed out or gone down if the Dashboard application has not timed the user out of the Dashboard session.
To update the timeout value in the Operations Center server’s Formula.custom.properties file, add or update the mo.remoteserver.context.keepAliveTime property value (in minutes).
By default, a connection timeout occurs after 30 minutes of inactivity with the Operations Center server.
For information about creating or using the Formula.custom.properties file, see Making Custom Changes
in the Novell Operations Center 5.0 Server Configuration Guide.
By default, if a user does not perform any activity in the Dashboard for 30 minutes, the user is warned that the session will expire. The user can remain logged into the Dashboard for an additional 30 minutes by responding to the notification.
To change the Dashboard session timeout:
Update the following line in the /OperationsCenter_Dashboard_install_path/server/webapps/ROOT/WEB-INF/web.xml file for the number of minutes before timeout:
<session-config> <session-timeout>30</session-timeout> </session-config>
By default, session timeout is enabled for the Dashboard. To extend sessions and keep them open as long as the user’s browser is open and a portal page is loaded, update the portal-ext.custom.properties file. When extending sessions, a smaller session.timeout value, such as 5 minutes, must be set.
To halt session timeout:
Stop the Dashboard server.
For more information, see Section 2.3.2, Stopping the Dashboard.
Update the /OperationsCenter_Dashboard_install_path/server/webapps/ROOT/WEB-INF/classes/portal-ext.custom.properties file to add the following line:
session.timeout.auto.extend=true
For more information about the portal-ext.custom.properties file, refer to Section 3.9, Understanding Portal Properties Files.
Update the /OperationsCenter_Dashboard_install_path/server/webapps/ROOT/WEB-INF/web.xml file to set a smaller session timeout:
<session-config> <session-timeout>5</session-timeout> </session-config>
It is recommended to set the session timeout to 5 minutes.
Start the Dashboard server.
For more information, see Section 2.3.1, Starting the Dashboard.
When using the Remember Me feature for auto-login, the cookie lifespan can be configured to expire after a specific length of time, or after each browser session.
By default, the Remember Me feature is enabled in the portal-ext.properties file using the company.security.auto.login setting.
To configure Remember Me and cookie lifespan:
Open the /OperationsCenter_Dashboard_install_path/server/webapps/ROOT/WEB-INF/classes/portal-ext.custom.properties file.
To configure cookie lifespan, add the following line and set to the length of time (in seconds) to expire:
company.security.auto.login.max.age=31536000
31536000 sets a lifespan of one year. Set to -1 to expire after each browser session.
To disable the Remember Me auto login feature, add the following line:
company.security.auto.login=false