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Property Default Value Description
Cookie authentication Enabled Enables or disables cookie
authentication. If you enable the cookie
authentication, the session ID is
returned in cookie. If you disable it the
cookie is returned in the header
Credentials login allowance Enabled Lets vAPI users authenticate with a
user name and password in addition to
using a SAML token.
Enables REST basic authentication Enabled Enables login service for simple
authentication with username and
password.
Global request rate 180 Global request rate. Set to 0 to disable.
Global request rate interval 1 Global request rate interval, measured
in seconds. This is the time frame in
which only hp.request.rate.count
requests are allowed. Set to 0 to
disable.
If you enable this option, the default
value is 1.
Maximum allowed request size 204800 The maximum allowed request size,
measured in bytes. Set to 0 to disable.
Maximum number of in-ight
requests.
2000 The maximum allowed number of in-
ight requests. Set to 0 to disable.
N In-ight requests take up
memory. If you increase this seing,
you must increase the memory of the
endpoint component.
Maximum number of simultaneous
connections to the VIM service
10 The max number of simultaneous
connections allowed to the VIM
service.
Maximum request age 14400 The maximum request age in seconds.
Maximum session count 1000 The maximum number of allowed
sessions. If you leave the value empty,
the maximum number of sessions
allowed is 10,000.
Maximum session idle time 3600000 The maximum time between requests
that a session may remain idle,
measured in milliseconds.
Maximum session lifespan 172800000 The maximum session lifespan,
measured in milliseconds. Used to
capture long sessions.
Minimum session lifespan 86400000 Minimum session lifespan in
milliseconds, used for renewable
tokens.
Reconguration interval 240 Interval between reconguration
aempts, measured in seconds.
Request rate for anonymous calls 3000 Maximum request rate for anonymous
calls. Set to 0 to disable.
Request rate for authorized requests 3800 Maximum request rate for authorized
calls. Set to 0 to disable.
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