5.2

Global Settings for Client Sessions
General
global settings determine session timeout lengths, SSO enablement and timeout limits, status updates
in View Administrator, and whether prelogin and warning messages are displayed.
Table 1-3. General Global Settings for Client Sessions
Setting Description
Session timeout Determines how long a user can keep a session open after logging in to
View Connection Server.
The value is set in minutes. You must type a value. The default is 600
minutes.
When a desktop session times out, the session is terminated and the
View client is disconnected from the desktop.
This value determines the amount of time that a single View Client
session
can stay connected to a desktop. It does not affect the amount of
time that a Windows session remains running on a desktop virtual
machine.
SSO Determines whether to enable or disable Single Sign-on (SSO) for View
users and sets the SSO timeout limit.
When SSO is in effect, when a user logs in to View Connection Server
from View Client, the user does not have to log in again to connect to
the View desktop. During a desktop session, a user can leave the
desktop, allow it to become inactive, and return without having to
authenticate again.
This setting has the following options:
n
Disable after. Enables SSO until the specified timeout limit is
reached. This is the default option.
By default, the user's SSO credentials are no longer valid after 15
minutes. This SSO timeout limit reduces the chance that someone
else could start using the desktop session.
You can change the SSO timeout limit by typing another value in
the Disable after text box.
The timeout limit is set in minutes. The time limit counter starts
when the user logs in to View Connection Server. For example, if
you set the value to 10 minutes, the user's SSO credentials are
invalidated 10 minutes after the user logs in to View Connection
Server.
n
Always enabled. Enables SSO with no timeout limit.
n
Disabled. Disables SSO altogether.
On
remote desktops, a new SSO timeout limit takes effect immediately.
You do not need to restart the View Connection Server service or the
client computer. For desktops that run in local mode, see “SSO Timeout
Limits and Local Mode Desktops,” on page 29.
View Administrator session timeout Determines how long an idle View Administrator session continues
before the session times out.
IMPORTANT Setting the View Administrator session timeout to a high
number of minutes increases the risk of unauthorized use of View
Administrator. Use caution when you allow an idle session to persist a
long time.
By default, the View Administrator session timeout is 30 minutes. You
can set a session timeout from 1 to 4320 minutes (72 hours).
Enable automatic status updates Determines if View Manager updates the global status pane in the upper
left corner of View Administrator every few minutes. The dashboard
page of View Administrator is also updated every few minutes.
By default, this setting is not enabled.
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