Logging Out Selected or All Users

To perform a system-wide process such as a backup and restore, you can log users off an application or an application server. For example, you can log off users logged on to the server and disable future logging on to the server. See Disabling and Enabling Connections.

Only members of the Administrator group that you specify when you configure the application server can log out users.

When you log out users, the system does not disconnect them immediately - there can potentially be a five-minute delay before the user is logged out while the processes that the user is performing are completed.

You can control the user session timeout by changing the timeout setting in Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS), or by changing the Web Session Timeout setting using the EPM Configurator. The default timeout setting is 20 minutes.

When you log a user off the system, the system displays a Stopped status for the user. In addition, the system notifies the user who has been logged off immediately following the first user action after logout.

To log users off an application or server:

1. Select Navigate, then Administer, and then Consolidation Administration.
2. Select Administration, then System, and then Users.
3. From the list of users, select one or more users to log out.
4. Take one of these actions:

   • Click Logout Selected User(s) or select Actions, and then Logout Selected User(s).

   • Click Logout All Users, or select Actions, and then Logout All Users.

   Tip:

   To refresh the list of users, click Refresh or select Actions, and then Refresh.