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.

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

Use the table that follows this procedure to identify the files to modify.
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.
Redeploy the Web applications whose files you modified.

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

Files to Modify for the Time-out Interval
Web Application	File Location
SAS Help Viewer for Midtier Applications	`SAS-install-dir\Documentation\9.3\Static\wars\sas.webdoc\WEB-INF\web.xml` `SAS-install-dir\Documentation\9.3\Static\wars\sas.webdoc\WEB-INF\web.spring-enabled.xml`
SAS BI Dashboard	`SAS-install-dir\SASBIDashboard\4.31\Configurable\wars\sas.bidashboard\WEB-INF\web.xml.orig`
Event generation framework in SAS BI Dashboard	`SAS-install-dir\SASBIDashboard\4.31\Configurable\wars\sas.eventsgenerationframework\WEB-INF\web.xml.orig`
SAS BI Portlets	`SAS-install-dirSASBIPortlets\4.3\Configurable\wars\sas.biportlets\WEB-INF\web.xml-thirdparty.orig` `SAS-install-dirSASBIPortlets\4.31\Configurable\wars\sas.biportlets\WEB-INF\web.xml-idp.orig`
JSR 168 for SAS BI Portlets	`SAS-install-dirSASBIPortlets\4.31\Configurable\wars\sas.jsr168remoteportlet\WEB-INF\web.xml.orig`
Flex Themes for SAS1	`SAS-install-dir\SASFlexApplicationThemes\3.4\Configurable\FlexThemes\wars\sas.flexthemes\WEB-INF\web.xml.orig`
SAS Theme Designer for Flex	`SAS-install-dir\SASFlexApplicationThemes\3.4\Configurable\ThemeDesigner\wars\sas.themedesigner\WEB-INF\web.xml.orig`
SAS Package Viewer	`SAS-install-dir\SASInformationDeliveryPortal\4.31\Configurable\wars\sas.packageviewer\WEB-INF\web.xml.orig`
SAS Information Delivery Portal	`SAS-install-dir\SASInformationDeliveryPortal\4.31\Configurable\wars\sas.portal\WEB-INF\web.xml.orig`
SAS BI Web Services1	`SAS-install-dir\SASWebInfrastructurePlatform\9.3\Configurable\wars\sas.biws\WEB-INF\web.xml.orig`
SAS Preferences1	`SAS-install-dir\SASWebInfrastructurePlatform\9.3\Configurable\wars\sas.preferences\WEB-INF\web.xml.orig`
SAS Shared Applications1	`SAS-install-dir\SASWebInfrastructurePlatform\9.3\Configurable\wars\sas.shared.apps\WEB-INF\web.xml.orig`
SAS Stored Process1	`SAS-install-dir\SASWebInfrastructurePlatform\9.3\Configurable\wars\sas.storedprocess\WEB-INF\web.xml.orig`
SAS Logon Manager1	`SAS-install-dir\SASWebInfrastructurePlatform\9.3\Configurable\wars\sas.svcs.logon\WEB-INF\web.xml.orig`
SAS Content Server1	`SAS-install-dir\SASWebInfrastructurePlatform\9.3\Configurable\wars\sas.svcs.scs\WEB-INF\web.xml.orig`
SAS Web Infrastructure Platform Client Access 1	`SAS-install-dir\SASWebInfrastructurePlatform\9.3\Configurable\wars\sas.wip.access\WEB-INF\web.xml.orig`
SAS Web Administration Console 1	`SAS-install-dir\SASWebInfrastructurePlatform\9.3\Configurable\wars\sas.wip.admin\WEB-INF\web.xml.orig`
SAS Web Infrastructure Platform Services 1	`SAS-install-dir\SASWebInfrastructurePlatform\9.3\Configurable\wars\sas.wip.services\WEB-INF\web.xml.orig`
SAS SOAP Services 1	`SAS-install-dir\SASWebInfrastructurePlatform\9.3\Configurable\wars\sas.wip.soapservices\WEB-INF\web.xml.orig`
SAS Workflow Web Service 1	`SAS-install-dir\SASWebInfrastructurePlatform\9.3\Configurable\wars\sas.workflow.webservice\WEB-INF\web.xml.orig`
SAS Workflow 1	`SAS-install-dir\SASWebInfrastructurePlatform\9.3\Configurable\wars\sas.workflow\WEB-INF\web.xml.orig`
SAS Shared Web Assets1	`SAS-install-dir\SASWebInfrastructurePlatform\9.3\Static\wars\sasweb\WEB-INF\web.xml`
SAS Web Report Studio	`SAS-install-dir\SASWebReportStudio\4.31\Configurable\wars\sas.webreportstudio\WEB-INF\web.jboss.xml.orig` `SAS-install-dir\SASWebReportStudio\4.31\Configurable\wars\sas.webreportstudio\WEB-INF\web.weblogic.xml.orig` `SAS-install-dir\SASWebReportStudio\4.31\Configurable\wars\sas.webreportstudio\WEB-INF\web.websphere.xml.orig`
1The session-config element described in Step 2 must be added to the web.xml.orig file for this application.