Specifications
Table Of Contents
- View Manager Administration Guide
- Contents
- About This Book
- Introduction
- Installation
- View Administrator
- Virtual Desktop Deployment
- Client Management
- Installing and Running View Client and View Portal
- Client Connections from the Internet
- Creating SSL Server Certificates
- Using Existing SSL Certificates
- Smart Card Authentication
- RSA SecurID Authentication
- View Client Command Line Options
- Virtual Printing
- Adobe Flash Bandwidth Reduction
- Client Computer Information
- Using PCoIP Display Protocol
- Using HP RGS Display Protocol
- View Composer
- Overview of View Composer
- Preparing vCenter Server for View Composer
- Preparing a Parent VM
- Deploying Linked Clone Desktops from View Manager
- Refreshing, Recomposing, and Rebalancing Linked Clone Desktops
- Using an Existing View Composer Database
- Using the SviConfig Tool for View Composer
- Offline Desktop
- Component Policies
- Unified Access
- Troubleshooting
- Appendix: The locked.properties File
- Glossary
- Index
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Table 3-4. Global Settings
Property Description
Sessiontimeout Determinehowlong(inminutes)usersareallowedtokeep
sessionsopenaftertheylogintotheViewConnectionServer.
Thisfieldmustcontainavalue,andthedefaultis600.
UseSSLforclient
connections
DeterminesifSSLisusedtocreateasecurecommunication
channelbetween
ViewConnectionServerandtheclient.
Thissettingmustbeenabledifyouareusingsmartcard
authentication.
ReauthenticateSecureVPN
connectionsafternetwork
interruption
Determinesiftunnelclientusercredentialsmustbe
reauthenticatedafteranetworkinterruption.Thissettinghas
noeffectwhendirectconnectionisbeingused.
Messagesecuritymode Determines
ifsigningandverificationoftheJMSmessages
passedbetweenViewManager3.xand4.xcomponentstakes
place.IfanycomponentinyourViewenvironmentpredates
ViewManager3.0,signingandverificationisnotpossible:
Disabled—Messagesecuritymodeisdisabled.
Mixed—Messagesecuritymodeisenabledbutnot
enforced.
Thismodecanbeusedtodetectcomponentsinyour
environmentthatpredateViewManager3.0asthelog
filesgeneratedbyViewConnectionServerwillcontain
referencestothesecomponents.
Enabled—Messagesecuritymodeisfullyenabled.
ComponentsthatpredateViewManager3.0willbe
refusedwhenattemptingtocommunicate.
IfasecurityserverexistsinyourViewManagerenvironment
andyouenablethissetting,youmusthaveanappropriately
configuredconfig.propertiesfileresidentonthesecurity
server.
Referto“Togenerate
aSecurityServerconfig.propertiesfile
fromtheConfigurationview”onpage 99formore
informationaboutthis.
MessagesecurityissupportedinViewManager3.1andlater.
Ifyouchange themessagesecuritymodefromDisabledor
MixedtoEnabled,youcannotlaunchadesktopthathasa
ViewAgentfrom
VirtualDesktopManagerversion2.1or
earlier.Ifyouthenchangethemessagesecuritymodefrom
EnabledtoMixedorDisabled,thedesktopstillfailsto
launch.Tobeabletolaunchadesktopafterchangingthe
messagesecuritymodefromEnabledtoMixedorDisabled,
reboottheaffecteddesktop.