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Change the Session Timeout Value in Cisco E-Mail Manager

Document ID: 43320



Contents

Introduction
Prerequisites
      Requirements
      Components Used
      Conventions
Session Timeout
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Introduction

This document addresses the Administrator and User session time-out issues in Cisco E-Mail Manager and describes how to change them.

Prerequisites

Requirements

Cisco recommends that you have knowledge of Cisco E-Mail Manager Administration.

Components Used

The information in this document is based on Cisco E-Mail Manager 5.0.x and later.

The information in this document was created from the devices in a specific lab environment. All of the devices used in this document started with a cleared (default) configuration. If your network is live, make sure that you understand the potential impact of any command.

Conventions

Refer to Cisco Technical Tips Conventions for more information on document conventions.

Session Timeout

There are two session time-out values in Cisco E-Mail Manager. One is for Administrator and the other is for User.

Administrator

The session time-out value for the Administrator is defined in the rserver.cfg file located in the c:\Program Files\Cisco\E-Mail Manager\Instances\cem\engine directory, see Figure 1.

Figure 1: rserver.cfg

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The parameter LOGIN_TIMEOUT controls the session time-out value for Administrator. Its unit is second. The default session timeout value for Administrator is 3600 seconds (1 hour). It can be adjusted according to real needs.

User

Session time-out value for User is defined in the properties.xml file located in c:\Program Files\Cisco\E-Mail Manager\Instances\instanceName\UI Server\uniroot\WEB-INF\properties\default\cem directory. Figure 2 shows a portion of the file.

Figure 2: Part of properties.xml

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The parameter DEFAULT_SESSION_TIME_OUT controls the session time-out value for the user. Its unit is milliseconds (ms). The default session time-out value for User is 1800000 ms (30 minutes). It can be adjusted according to your actual needs. If set to -1, session time-out is disabled.


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Updated: Apr 19, 2007 Document ID: 43320