Administering SAS Web Applications

Configuring the HTTP Session Time-out Interval

A session time-out interval logs off users' inactive sessions after a specific period of time that is defined in the Web application server configuration. The default value for a session time-out interval is 30 minutes.

You can customize the session time-out interval for your environment by modifying one or more of the web.xml files, and specifying a different time-out interval. For more information, see Modifying a Session Time-out Interval.

Modifying a Session Time-out Interval

You can specify a session time-out interval for inactive user sessions with Web applications. To specify a custom session time-out interval, you should manually modify the time-out interval in the appropriate web.xml files. If an application has multiple web.*xml*files, then you should modify all the files that are listed.

To specify a session time-out interval, follow these steps:

Modify the following code in the appropriate files:
```
<session-config>
<session-timeout>time-out-interval</session-timeout>
</session-config>
```
Replace time-out-interval with the time-out interval in minutes. As a recommendation, the number should be no smaller than 5.

When you are finished, save and close the file.
Use the SAS Deployment Manager to rebuild the EAR files that contain the SAS Web applications.
If the Web application server is running, stop it.
Redeploy the Web applications whose files you modified. See Redeploying the SAS Web Applications.
Restart the Web application server.

The following table lists the file or files that should be modified to specify a different time-out interval for each Web application.

Web Application Files to Modify for the Time-out Interval
Web Application	Files to Modify	Location
SAS Information Delivery Portal	web.xml.orig	SAS-installation-directory \SASInformationDeliveryPortal\ 4.3\Configurable\wars\sas.portal\ WEB-INF
SAS Package Viewer (ships with SAS Information Delivery Portal)	web.xml.orig	SAS-installation-directory \SASInformationDeliveryPortal\ 4.3\Configurable\wars\ sas.packageviewer\WEB-INF
SAS Web Report Studio	web.jboss.xml.orig web.weblogic.xml.orig web.websphere.xml.orig	SAS-installation-directory \SASWebReportStudio\4.3\ Configurables\wars\ sas.webreportstudio\WEB-INF
SAS BI Portlets (Available in the October 2009 Release and later)	web.xml-idp.orig web.xml-thirdparty.orig	SAS-installation-directory SASBIPortlets\4.3\Configurable \wars\sas.biportlets\WEB-INF
JSR 168 for SAS BI Portlets (Available in the October 2009 Release and later)	web.xml.orig	SAS-installation-directory SASBIPortlets\4.3\Configurable \wars\sas.jsr168remoteportlet\WEB-INF
SAS Help Viewer Metadata Configuration	web.xml.orig	SAS-installation-directory \Documentation\9.2\Static\wars\ sas.webdoc\WEB-INF
SAS BI Dashboard 4.3 (Beginning with the November 2010 Release)	web.xml.orig	SAS-installation-directory \SASBIDashboard\4.3\Configurables \wars\sas.\WEB-INF
Event generation framework in SAS BI Dashboard 4.3 (Beginning with the November 2010 Release)	web.xml.orig	SAS-installation-directory \SASBIDashboard\4.3\Configurables \wars\sas.bidashboard\WEB-INF

The following table lists the file or files that should be modified to specify a different time-out interval for SAS shared applications or SAS Web Infrastructure Platform files.

SAS Shared Application and Web Infrastructure Platform Files to Modify for the Time-out Interval
SAS Shared Applications and Web Infrastructure Platform Files	Files to Modify	Location
SAS Shared Applications	web.xml.orig	SAS-installation-directory \SASSharedServices\9.2\ Configurable\wars\sas.shared.apps\ WEB-INF
SAS Shared Services	web.xml.orig	SAS-installation-directory \SASSharedServices\9.2\ Configurable\wars \sas.shared.services\
SAS Shared Portlets	web.xml.orig	SAS-installation-directory \SASSharedServices\9.2\ Configurable\wars \sas.svcs.portlets\WEB-INF
SAS Workflow	web.xml.orig	SAS-installation-directory \SASSharedServices\9.2\ Configurable\wars\sas.workflow\ WEB-INF
SAS Workflow Web Service	web.xml.orig	SAS-installation-directory \SASSharedServices\9.2\Configurable \wars\sas.workflow.webservice \WEB-INF
SAS Preferences	web.xml.orig	SAS-installation-directory \SASSharedServices\9.2\Configurable \wars\sas.preferences\WEB-INF
SAS Stored Process	web.xml.orig	SAS-installation-directory \SASSharedServices\9.2\Configurable \wars\sas.storedprocess\WEB-INF
SAS Logon Manager	web.xml.orig	SAS-installation-directory \SASSharedServices\9.2\Configurable \wars\sas.svcs.logon\WEB-INF
SAS Content Server	web.xml.orig	SAS-installation-directory \SASSharedServices\9.2\Configurable \wars\sas.svcs.scs\WEB-INF
SAS Web Infrastructure Platform Client Access	web.xml.orig	SAS-installation-directory \SASSharedServices\9.2\Configurable \wars\sas.wip.access\WEB-INF
SAS Web Infrastructure Platform Administration	web.xml.orig	SAS-installation-directory \SASSharedServices\9.2\Configurable \wars\sas.wip.admin\WEB-INF
SAS Web Infrastructure Platform Services	web.xml.orig	SAS-installation-directory \SASSharedServices\9.2\Configurable \wars\sas.wip.services\WEB-INF
SAS SOAP Services	web.xml.orig	SAS-installation-directory \SASSharedServices\9.2\Configurable \wars\sas.wip.soapservices\WEB-INF
SAS BI Web Services (JBoss)	jboss-web.xml.orig web.xml.orig	SAS-installation-directory \SASSharedServices\9.2\Configurable \wars\sas.biws\jboss\WEB-INF
SAS BI Web Services (WebLogic)	web.xml.orig	SAS-installation-directory \SASSharedServices\9.2\Configurable \wars\sas.biws\weblogic\WEB-INF
SAS BI Web Services (WebSphere)	web.xml.orig	SAS-installation-directory \SASSharedServices\9.2\Configurable \wars\sas.biws\websphere\WEB-INF

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