Sun Java System Federation Manager 7.0 User's Guide

Session

Sessions module provides a solution for viewing user session information and managing user sessions. It keeps track of various session times as well as allowing the administrator to invalidate a session. The Session attributes are:

Maximum Number of Search Results

This attribute specifies the maximum number of results returned by a session search. The default value is 120.

Timeout For Search (Seconds)

This attributed defines the maximum amount of time before a session search terminates. The default value is 5 seconds.

Max Session Time (Minutes)

This attribute accepts a value in minutes to express the maximum time before the session expires and the user must reauthenticate to regain access. A value of 1 or higher will be accepted. The default value is 120. Max Session Time limits the validity of the session. It does not get extended beyond the configured value.


Tip –

To balance the requirements of security and convenience, consider setting the Max Session Time interval to a higher value and setting the Max Idle Time interval to a relatively low value.


Max Idle Time (Minutes)

This attribute accepts a value (in minutes) equal to the maximum amount of time without activity before a session expires and the user must reauthenticate to regain access. A value of 1 or higher will be accepted. The default value is 30.


Tip –

To balance the requirements of security and convenience, consider setting the Max Session Time interval to a higher value and setting the Max Idle Time interval to a relatively low value.


Max Caching Time (Minutes)

This attribute accepts a value (in minutes) equal to the maximum interval before the client contacts Federation Manager to refresh cached session information. A value of 0 or higher will be accepted. The default value is 3. It is recommended that the maximum caching time should always be less than the maximum idle time.