How to increase IP session timeout

Products

• CA Identity Manager
• CA Identity Governance
• CA Identity Portal
• CA Identity Suite

Issue/Introduction

How to increase the logout time (session timeout) of any user in Identity Portal.

Environment

Release : 14.x (on-Premise)

Component : CA IDENTITY MANAGER

Resolution

1. Stop IP.

2. Locate the sigma.war file from the IP deployment.


3. Open sigma.war using Winzip or similar and locate the "web.xml" file in the "WEB-INF" folder.

4. Edit the file and amend the session-config settings.

<session-config>
      <!-- 30 minutes -->
      <session-timeout>30</session-timeout>
    </session-config>

5. Save the changes and close web.xml and winzip.

6. Start IP



Note that these setting will need to be updated whenever you upgrade or deploy a hotfix\ CP for Identity Portal.