PowerFlex How to Configure management session timeout parameters

Configure management session timeout parameters

Configure the management session idle timeout on each MDM as required by your organization.

When the system authenticates a user, all commands are performed with the user's respective role until a logout is performed, or until the session expires by reaching one of the following timeouts:

• Maximum session length (default: 8 hours)
• Session idle time (default: 10 minutes)

You can modify these parameters by editing the MDM conf.txt file:

• Linux: /opt/emc/scaleio/mdm/cfg/conf.txt
• Windows: C:\Program Files\emc\scaleio\mdm\cfg\conf.txt

1. To configure the maximum session length, edit the value of the user_session_hard_timeout_secs parameter. The minimum is 10 seconds, the maximum 10 years, and the default 8 hours.
2. To configure session idle time, edit the value of the user_session_timeout_secs parameter. The minimum is 10 seconds, maximum 3 months, default 10 minutes.
3. After changing the parameters, restart the secondary MDMs. After the secondary MDMs are up, reassign the primary MDM to one of the secondary and then restart the MDM service (delete and create service).
4. To ensure application resilience, make these changes on every MDM.

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