How to adjust adminUI session idle timeout

Products

• CA Single Sign On Secure Proxy Server (SiteMinder)
• CA Single Sign On SOA Security Manager (SiteMinder)
• CA Single Sign-On

Issue/Introduction

How to adjust adminUI session idle timeout.

Environment

Release:
Component: SMAUI

Resolution

For example, session timeout can be increased to 2 hours.

By default , the value is set to 30 minutes.

1.       Stop SiteMinder Administrative UI

2.       Go to: 

<AdminUI_Install_direcotry>\standalone\deployments\iam_siteminder.ear\user_console.war\WEB-INF\WEB.xml

(<AdminUI_Install_direcotry>/standalone/deployments/iam_siteminder.ear/user_console.war/WEB-INF/WEB.xml on Unix/Linux platform)

3.       Change the below session timeout value from 30 to 120.            

 <session-config>

      <!-- 30 minutes -->

      <session-timeout>120</session-timeout>

4.       Delete following directories

<AdminUI_Install_direcotry>\standalone\data
<AdminUI_Install_direcotry>\standalone\tmp

5.       Start SiteMinder Administrative UI