Setting session inactivity timeout values for application servers

You can set session inactivity timeout values for OpenPages® application servers.

If you are using IBM OpenPages for IBM Cloud Pak for Data, see Setting session inactivity timeout values for application servers in IBM OpenPages for IBM Cloud Pak for Data .

Procedure

  1. Prepare your environment.
    1. Log on to the IBM OpenPages application server as a user with administrative permissions.
    2. Stop all OpenPages services. For more information, see Stopping application servers.
  2. Go to the overrides directory.

    <OP_HOME>/wlp-usr/servers/<server_name>Server<#>/configDropins/overrides/ where <server_name> is the name of the application server.

  3. In a text editor, open the op-apps.xml file and look for the following line: 
    <httpSession cookieSecure="true" invalidationTimeout="90m"/>
  4. Set the invalidationTimeout parameter to the value in minutes. Save and close the file.
  5. Do the following steps:
    1. Restart all OpenPages services. For more information, see Starting application servers.
    2. If this is a load-balanced environment, repeat this procedure for each application server in the load-balanced environment.

What to do next

Set the timeout period for the IBM® Cognos® reporting server to a value greater than the application server timeout period. For more information, see Setting a session inactivity timeout value.