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Table 1-3. General Global Settings for Client Sessions
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Setting Description
Display a pre-login message Displays a disclaimer or another message to View Client users when
they log in.
Type your information or instructions in the text box in the Global
Settings dialog window.
To display no message, leave the check box unselected.
Display warning before forced logoff Displays a warning message when users are forced to log off because a
scheduled or immediate update such as a desktop-refresh operation is
about to start. This setting also determines how long to wait after the
warning is shown before the user is logged off.
Check the box to display a warning message.
Type
the number of minutes to wait after the warning is displayed and
before logging off the user. The default is five minutes.
Type your warning message. You can use the default message:
Your desktop is scheduled for an important update and
will be shut down in 5 minutes. Please save any unsaved
work now.
SSO Timeout Limits and Local Mode Desktops
On desktops that run in local mode, a new SSO timeout limit takes effect the next time a client computer that
hosts the local desktop sends a heartbeat message to View Connection Server.
On View desktops that are used in local mode, a checkout operation might take longer than the SSO timeout
limit. In this case, the user's SSO credentials expire before the checkout is completed.
For
example, you might set the SSO timeout limit to 10 minutes. A user might log in to View Connection Server
and check out a desktop. If the checkout takes 20 minutes and the user then launches the desktop, the user still
needs to log in to the desktop manually, even though the user has not yet spent any time in a desktop session.
SSO succeeds after the user closes View Client and reconnects to View Connection Server.
A first-time checkout in a low-bandwidth environment might take longer than 15 minutes, the default timeout
limit. A user's SSO credentials might expire during the first checkout if the default SSO timeout limit is in effect.
Global Security Settings for Client Sessions and Connections
Global security settings determine whether clients are reauthenticated after interruptions, message security
mode is enabled, IPSec is used for security server connections, and SSO is used for local desktop operations.
SSL is required for all View Client connections and View Administrator connections to View. If your View
deployment uses load balancers or other client-facing, intermediate servers, you can off-load SSL to them and
then configure non-SSL connections on individual View Connection Server instances and security servers. See
“Off-load SSL Connections to Intermediate Servers,” on page 33.
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