Manually increase the Aria Automation and VCF Automation UI session timeout period

Products

• VCF Operations/Automation (formerly VMware Aria Suite)

Issue/Introduction

Users are automatically logged out of Aria Automation and VCF Automation after a period of idle time and there is a need to modify the amount of time before users are logged out.

Environment

• VMware Aria Automation 8.x
• VCF Automation 9.x

Cause

Changes to Aria Automation 8.x can be done via a hidden UI configuration property accessible via URL. 

Resolution

VCF Automation 9.x

• Modifications to idle timeout are not available at this time.
• Please file a feature request and/or upvote an existing feature request using these instructions: Submit a VMware by Broadcom feature request.

Aria Automation 8.x Modifications

• We can manually add a configuration property from the vRA UI to set a custom timeout period.
• Steps:
  • Access the vRA from the below URL to get to the hidden configuration properties:

https://VRA_FQDN/automation/#/service/automation-ui/provisioning-ui;ash=%2FconfigurationProperties

Here replace the VRA_FQDN with the actual vRA FQDN from the environment on which you want to apply the changes.

• • Click on "new configuration property" to add a new configuration property:
  • Add a new configuration property named SESSION_TIMEOUT_DURATION_MINUTES and set its value to 480 minutes.

NOTE: You don't need to restart the provisioning-service-app pod for the changes to take effect.

kubectl delete pod <provisioning-service-app-pod> -n prelude