Portal Session Timeout Setting

There is a JServ session and a portal session. I know how to control session timeout and session clean up frequency in JServ - that's in zone.properties. But, I dont know how to set timeout for portal session, i.e., I'd like to have the user be forced to login again when he has been idle for 15 mins - and only if he has been idle. Jserv session settings are not sufficient for this because Portal has it's own session that must time out.
How to set this timeout value (I'm using my own provider which has a timeout setting in zone.properties and includes a bunch of JSP portlets)? Also, is there a clean up thread for which the frequency has to be set?

I've contacted metalink weeks ago, and this is NOW, a know bug...
Incredible... Oracle just DO NOT TEST their products... Even a simple SESSION timeout do not work. Also, if I click back after "I log In and Log out" ... Session still up without have to login again!
BUG 2442268

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Portal session Timeout

Hi,
I want to increase the portal session timeout to 2hrs. We have 2 Portal server which are load balanced. The configuration is as below:
Portal Version: 10.3.0.337003
.NET Version: 2.0
OS: Win 2003 Server
Database : Oracle 11g
IIS:6.0
On both the server I have edited the session time out parameter corresponding to the file as mentioned below:
Portalconfig.xml :
<setting name="BrowserLoginTokenExpiration">
<value xsi:type="xsd:integer">120</value>
</setting>
BEA Web.config
<sessionState cookieless="false" timeout="120" />
.NET Web.Config
<sessionState timeout="120" />
But still the we are not able to achive 2 hrs of session timeout. Do we have to make entry in .NET machine.config? Please let me know if thier is any other file where changes is required?
Also in lower environment, we have our portal installed on .NET 2.0 framework ( only one instance of portal server ), we are able to achive 2Hrs of session time out by modifying the state management session time out value ( default website-> properties->asp.net tab->edit configuration->state management tab)
Please help me!!
Edited by: Oracle WCI on Oct 10, 2011 1:43 PM

As per the documents share by oracle support..only place in WCI 10gr3 (10.3.0.1) and IIS where we set timeout value is State Management tab (default website->portal ->properties->asp.net->edit configuration-state management)..we have this valye set to 2Hrs (120 min) on both the portal server ( load balanced)..but still portal is getting time out after 1 hrs..I am not sure which external factore is limiting this to 1 hrs..
both portal server are load balanced and IWA is implemented...
Any light on the external factor line SSO setting, Load balanced ..etc will be higly appriciated..Please help!!

Portal session timeout judge

Hi everybody,
I have a question about portal session timeout. Now we have a javascript for session timeout in Masthead iview, which can increase the time for the active user. It uses EPCM to rase the event. But our page has four iveiws, and there is a iview form that use the javascript to submit the request, and don't refresh the whole page, so it can't call our session timeout javascript to increase the time.
Whether we can call the javascript from other iviews? Or do we have other ways to do the session timeout judge and increase the time by user's activity in sap portal ?
Thanks

Hi,
Try to subscribe to EPCM events on all navigations in your code, which will in turn update the timer
EPCM.subscribeEvent("urn:com.sapportals:navigation", "Navigate", pop);
EPCM.subscribeEvent("urn:com.foo.bar.myapp", "myEvent", pop);
You can also call the update timer method (in masthead) from your I view form code using AJAX, which will be more simpler.
Regards,
Santhosh

Portal Session Timeout - ICM/Webdynpro/POWL

Hi Experts,
We are having SRM Portal which has POWL Webdynpro and other applications running.
SRM Portal is a seperate JAVA Instance and integrated to backend with SSO enabled.
We have Logon Ticket Timeout set as default 8 Hours and the Session Timeout in Portal set as 2 Hours (Server>services>webcontainer>properties>Session Timeout).
For the ABAP backend, we have rdisp/plugin_auto_logout-->7200 (2 Hours) and ICM timeout as remommeded by SAP as icm/server_port_0 = PROT=HTTP,PORT=8012,TIMEOUT=90,PROCTIMEOUT=600
Now the problem is:
1. Users connected to portal and work on any POWL Iviews has an idle time of two hours-->we get the ICM session timeout error page.
2. Sometimes Users get the Login screen of portal within the Navigation Frame which can be identified as the Ticket Expiration
Is there a possibility to control the behavior of portal to avoid these error pages to Users like if the timeout happened in backend, there should be auto refresh if the user clicks the application.
And if the ticket expired, the portal should refresh to the home screen on clicking any Iview.
We tried the IDLE timeout pop up and in Vain, you could see my another post on the same.
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Regards,
Sethu

Hi,
Read SAP note 705013,
I think adjusting the kernel parameters, rdisp/gui_auto_logout and rdisp/plugin_auto_logout will help.
Try adding below parameters in the Instance profile.
icm/keep_alive_timeout 3600
icm/conn_timeout 5000
Regards,
Venkata S Pagolu

Hi I have two questions. I am using NAS 4.1 and was wondering is it possible to set a different session timeout for different users? How is the session timeout set? Thanks, YS

I am using NAS 4.1 and was wondering is it possible to set a different session timeout for different users?
Um, there is no such thing as NAS4.1.
I'm assuming that you mean NAS4.0 (maybe NAS4.0sp1?). If so, then the session timeouts are specified in the session section of the NTV configuration files.
AFAIK, you can specify session timeouts on a per user basis.

Session Timeout Setting in Business Intelligence Platform 4

Greetings. We are using Business Intelligence Platform 4 SP 2.5. We use LDAP authentication for logging in to the CMC, BI Launchpad, and Lifecycle Management console. Our sessions expire after 10 minutes (of either activity or inactivity). I haven't been able to find the setting that controls the timeout. Does anyone know?
Thank you in advance,
Dave

Hi Dave,
TO make the change for the timeout we need to navigate to following location:
1. Program Files (x86)\SAP BusinessObjects\Tomcat6\webapps\BOE\WEB-INF
2. Open the web.xml. Search for the "session-timeout" and change the value to as per your requirement.
3. This change would take effect on both CMC and BI LaunchPad.
4. Restart the Tomcat.
At <INSTALLDIR>\Tomcat6\conf\web.xml change 30 to 60:
 <session-config>
 <session-timeout>60</session-timeout>
 </session-config>
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Sonia

Portal Session Timeout and Logon Ticket Timeout

Hi All,
Can anyone give me answers to the following:
- If my Portal session times out, but my logon ticket is still valid, will I lose my session data?
- Is there any way of determining the size of a users session information in memory (or the size of all user sessions in memory). I can see in the Monitoring service in Visual Admin the number of sessions but not their individual or total size.
I'm using EP7.
Cheers,
Steve

Hi,
the Logon Ticket is only used for SSO between the portal and the integrated system. Your session data is stored in the session. If the session times out or gets closed, the session data is lost.
br,
Tobias

How to Sync the session timeout of Portal with CMS Server

Hi Experts,
We have a custom application build on our portal which will launch the reports of InfoView. It works fine untill the portal session timeout. Whenever the session timeout occurs and reloads it I am unable to launch the reports and getting the below exception.
com.crystaldecisions.sdk.exception.SDKException$OCAFramework: Unable to reconnect to the CMS server_ip:6400. The session has been logged off or has expired. (FWM 01002)
Portal is configured with SSO. Please adviese how to set the settings of session timeout in such way that Portal sync session timeout with CMS server.
Thanks in Advance,
Chinaa.

Hi ,
There is no such option to sync Portal timout with CMS server.
To resolve your problem you have only option to set your CMS server timout to MAX value.
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Anil

Session timeout Hyperion Planning 4.0.1

Hello, on our clients the planning-session times out after 3 minutes. I have set the session timeout setting for Apache Tomcat 4.1 in the File web.xml to the number 60, but the session already times out after 3 minutes. Can you help me? Best regards, Rainer

This could be a setting on the network/intranet/internet at the client. Had a similar problem at one of our clients and it was down to a 3 minute timeout on any request over the intranet. Worth a check with the IT department on it. Hope this helps. Andy King www.analitica.co.uk

Idle/session timeout vs sleeping client

Hello,
We will soon upgrade to WLC from 7.4.110 to 7.6.120 and find out a new feature : spleeping client.
I was wondering the purpose of the sleeping client vs idle timeout/session timeout.
In our case we have an idle client set to 14400 seconds (4H) and session timeout set to 28880 (8H) for web-auth SSID. Thus, even if a laptop is sleeping for 3H it will still be authenticated as the idle timeout has not been reached.
Based on those facts, what will be the purpose of the sleeping client feature as it must be set higher than the session timeout ?
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make sure that the session timeout is greater than the client idle timeout, otherwise the sleeping client entry would not be created.
After entering the appropriate login credentials for web-auth, the client get authenticated and moves to RUN state.
Now if the client configured is idle for 300 seconds (default idle timeout value) or disconnects from the WLAN it is connected to, then the client will move to sleeping clients.
Once the client is moved to the Sleeping Clients, the timeout session starts and the remaining time before the client entry is deleted/cleared is displayed.
If the client wakes up or joins back to the same WLAN, it doesn't require re-authentication.
the number of sleeping clients that are remembered has increased to 25000 from the previous 9000. A larger number of sleeping clients are remembered even after waking up, on the wireless network with high-scale Cisco WLCs. This eliminates the need for user intervention to re-enter credentials for a greater number of clients.

HFM and Session Timeout

Is there any way to change the time before you are automatically logged out of an HFM (or Workspace) web session due to inactivity?
Thanks.
Terri T.

Hi,
Try something like this:
Workspace timeout settings:
● Application server session timeout— Time in minutes after which the application server
times out a session if no requests are received for that session
❍ In \Workspace deployment\WEB-INF\web.xml:
<session-config>
<session-timeout>60 </session-timeout>
</session-config>
❍ Default is 60 minutes
Note:
All Reporting and Analysis Web applications session timeouts should be greater than
10 minutes.
● Workspace timeout—Time in minutes after which Workspace warns and logs out inactive
users
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Reporting, Web Analysis, and Oracle's Hyperion® Performance Scorecard – System 9). If
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session is about to end. If the user does not take action within 5 minutes, the user is logged
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Setting Session Timeout for HANA Cloud Portal

Hi all,
is there any way for setting the session timeout period on HANA cloud Portal?
If not, what is the predefined session timeout?
Thank you in advance.
Silvia Grabmann

Hi Silvia,
Session timeout is 20 minutes and cannot be changed. In fact it is configured at the platform level.
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Ifat.

How to check and change the dafault session timeout of the Portal?

Hello,
When leaving a portal page open without using it for a certain amount of time and then accessing it again the Session times-out.
Where can I check and change this default time-out time in case I would like to extand it for the end users?
Roy

Hi Roy,
Session timeout includes multiple settings (J2EE setting and SSO setting at User Management).
Defining the Timeout in J2EE Session
1. Open file web.xml (path depends on the version of EP6.0. If it is based on NW04, then
..\cluster\server0\apps\sap.com\irj\servlet_jsp\irj\root\WEB-INF
2. Enter a value in minutes under <session-timeout>. The value should roughly correspond to the length of a synchronization cycle. The default is 30 minutes.
After a successful login, it receives a SSO ticket which is valid for longer duration (generally 8 hrs, default which you can changed using "System Admin" as mentioned by Yoel.
Thanks,
Swapan

How to set session timeout per user

Hi,
Ho do I set the session timeout per User in the
Application.cfm File??
I tried using
<cfif SESSION.UID EQ 1>
<CFAPPLICATION NAME="appControl" SESSIONMANAGEMENT="Yes"
sessiontimeout="#CreateTimeSpan(0,0,20,0)#">
</cfelse>
<CFAPPLICATION NAME="appControl" SESSIONMANAGEMENT="Yes"
sessiontimeout="#CreateTimeSpan(1,0,0,0)#">
</cfif>
But this didnt work because the cfapplication seems to have
to be at the top before I call the variable SESSION.UID which
I set on my login page..
Someone know how to do this??
Regards
Martin

Martin,
Your code example cannot work because the "session" scope
doesn't exist until your application scope is defined. So you have
to handle this manually. Here's how you can get it done. First,
define your application to the maximum sessiontimeout you want to
have.
<CFAPPLICATION NAME="appControl" SESSIONMANAGEMENT="Yes"
SESSIONTIMEOUT="#CreateTimeSpan(1,0,0,0)#">
Then, I don't know how you are doing your login
authentication but when you have authenticated the user, you need
to define the userid and the most recent activity in the session.
Also determine your timeout value based on the userid. See example:
<CFIF IS_AUTHENTICATED>
<CFSET session.user.uid = form.userid>
<CFSET session.user.most_recent_activity = now()>
<CFIF session.user.id eq 1>
<CFSET session.user.timeout_mins = 20>
<CFELSE>
<CFSET session.user.timeout_mins = 1440>
</CFIF>
</CFIF>
Now, all you have to do is check whether the user has been
idle for too long and kill the session by purging all session
variables. For example:

<CFIF structKeyExists(session, "user") and
structKeyExists(session.user, "id")>

<CFIF datediff("n", session.user.most_recent_activity,
now()) gt session.user.timeout_mins>

<CFSET StructClear(session)>

<CFELSE>

<CFSET session.user.most_recent_activity = now()>
</CFIF>
</CFIF>

How to set a variable in portal session using web dynpro java.

Hi,
I have created a web dynpro application, which is running inside portal. I have created a role called "R1". Inside role R1, i have created 3 workset W1, W2 and W3. and inside each workset i have some pages and iviews.
My requirement is when user logins to the portal , and when he clicks on role R1 for the first time, a login page should come (so that we can do revalidation), and when he enters his password again in that login page , then only workset W1, W2 and W3 should be visible/accessible to him and after successful revalidation, if he clicks again on role R1, in that particular portal session, than that login page should not come.
for this, i thought i will set a variable in portal session, whenever user successfully revalidated himself, and if after successful revalidation he clicks again on role R1, i will check in doinit method of webdynpro whether variable is set or not (which i already set on successful revalidation), and if it is set then i will do Donavigation else i will present login page to the user.
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Arush

Hi,
Try this:
WDScopeUtil.put(WDScopeType.CLIENTSESSION_SCOPE, key, value)
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String value1=WDScopeUtil.get(WDScopeType.CLIENTSESSION_SCOPE,"Key1").toString();
/people/william.cui/blog/2007/02/12/sharing-session-context-between-parent-and-external-windows-running-on-same-host
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