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Question
How do you change the inactive session timeout for the Openstack and Self-service user interfaces in IBM Cloud Orchestrator?
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Answer
To configure the inactive session timeout interval for the OpenStack user interface, complete the following steps:
- Add the following code to your openstack_dashboard/local_settings.py file:
SESSION_TIMEOUT = NOS*
Note: NOS* is the number of seconds. The default value is 1800.
- Restart the Apache HTTP server using the following command for the change to take effect:
service httpd restart
To configure the inactive session timeout interval for the Self-service user interface, complete the following steps:
- Modify the token_expiration value in the /opt/ibm/ccs/scui/etc/config.json file. For example:
"token_expiration": NOM*
Note: NOM* is the number of minutes. The default value is 240.
- Restart the swi component using the following commands for the change to take effect:
./SCOrchestrator.py --stop -p swi
./SCOrchestrator.py --start -p swi
[{"Product":{"code":"SS4KMC","label":"IBM SmartCloud Orchestrator"},"Business Unit":{"code":"BU053","label":"Cloud & Data Platform"},"Component":"User Interface","Platform":[{"code":"PF016","label":"Linux"}],"Version":"2.4;2.4.0.1","Edition":"","Line of Business":{"code":"LOB45","label":"Automation"}}]
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Modified date:
17 June 2018
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