Session Timeout for vRealize Operations NOC Dashboard!

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Just wanted to share something which I recently learnt about the vROps dashboards and session timeouts for a user. We all know that with vRealize Operations Manager you can use the session timeout feature under Administration -> Global Settings, to control the session timeouts for users. While the default option for this timeout is 30 minutes, the maximum you can go up to is 34560 minutes which is around 22 days. Here is the screenshot from the settings page:-

The product does not give you the option for disabling the session timeouts completely as it did in it's previous avatar : vCOps 5.x. The reason you would not want to disable the session timeout is to ensure that you do not run out of sessions, since each vROps node can provide only a limited number of sessions.

If this is the case, how can you have a dashboard for your NOC monitors which does not timeout?

Actually the answer is pretty simple, if you have a dashboard which contains a widget which refreshes every few minutes, or basically if the refresh period is less than 30 minutes, then you will not be timed out. So make sure that you have a widget which keeps refreshing the session alive.

Also, I would recommend that you use Firefox as I have seen one of my customer test it in their NOC and the NOC user did not timeout.

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Part 10 : Reviewing the Global Settings in vRealize Operations Manager!

As a part of the series I am doing on vRealize Operations Manager, I thought it would be useful for readers to know about the Global Settings parameters you can now change from the GUI. These settings were available (most of them) with the previous release known as vCenter Operations Manager, however now these settings are a part of the GUI which makes them easily accessible and configurable.

Through this post, I will tell you about these settings and the various parameters you can tweak and a quick overview of how these parameters can help you customize your vRealize Operations deployment.

So to begin with, let's look at where these settings are located in the GUI of the Product UI:

Launch the Product UI and click on the Administration Icon and then Global Settings on the left pane.

Once you click on the Global Settings, you will see a list of parameters which can be highlighted and edited by clicking on the "pencil" icon.

The description field on the right gives you a complete view of the effects of changing these settings.

When you click on the edit button, you will get an opportunity to modify all the parameters at once.

Unlike the previous release, you can now change the timeouts, data retention and historical events right from this screen, which in my opinion is a great little enhancement to this new release. To top it all, you no longer have to bump up the services for any of these settings to take effect.

Hope this helps....


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