How to adjust timeout setting for SSH sessions on Aria Suite Lifecycle appliance

Products

• VMware Aria Suite

Issue/Introduction

This article contains the steps on how to adjust timeout setting for SSH sessions on Aria Suite Lifecycle appliance.

Environment

VMware vRealize Suite Lifecycle Manager 8.10.x

Resolution

1. Open the /etc/profile.d/tmout.sh file in a text editor.

Note: The /etc/profile.d/tmout.sh file applies user-specific timeout.

     2. Edit this line by changing the amount of seconds from the default 900 to the desired timeout limit:

TMOUT=900

     3. Save and close the file.

Any new sessions opened will respect the newly configured timeout value.