HP Systems Insight Manager 5.3 with Update 1 Installation and Configuration Guide for Linux HP Part Number: 418811-005 Published: April 2009 Edition: 5.3.1

session alive. The user is timed-out either by inactivity, closing the browser, or navigating to another site.
The default time-out period is 20 minutes.
Implementation
• To configure the time-out policy, edit the globalsettings.props file. You can switch between these
modes or change the time-out period. The default time-out policy is the monitor policy. The monitor
policy is enabled when:
EnableSessionKeepAlive=true
To enable the active time-out policy, change this value to false.
EnableSessionKeepAlive=false
• To change the default time-out period, edit the web.xml file. The default location for this file is:
• For Linux:
/opt/mx/jboss/server/hpsim/deploy/jbossweb-tomcat50.sar/conf/web.xml
Locate the session-timeout element, and set it to a new value in minutes.
<session-timeout>20</session-timeout>
HP SIM audit log configuration
Overview
Several features of the HP SIM Audit Log are configurable. For example, you can specify which tools log
data and the maximum Audit Log file size. The HP SIM Audit Log is configured through the log.properties
file, and tool logging is enabled or disabled through the XML tool definition files.
Tool behaviors The XML tool definition file provides an option to disable logging of single-system aware
(SSA) and multiple-system aware (MSA) command tools. The log attribute for the command element specifies
whether the results of the command are output to the HP SIM log file. Command output is logged by default.
Audit log parameters In the log.properties file, you can configure the following Audit Log parameters:
• File name
• File extension
• Maximum file size in megabytes
• File extension of the roll-over name
• Amount of memory allocated for queuing items to be written to the Audit Log
Audit log location The location of the Audit Log can be configured using the path.properties file.
Implementation
Changes made to the log.properties file do not take effect until the log manager daemon or service is
restarted. For Linux, restart the HP SIM daemons using mxstop and mxstart.
CAUTION: The queue size should be changed only with extreme care. If the queue is set too high, the
log manager consumes too much system memory.
NOTE: When the Audit Log file reaches the maximum file size, the log is renamed with
MX_LOGROLLFILEEXT extension and a new file is started. If a previous version of the file has already been
renamed with the MX_LOG_ROLLFILEEXT extension, it will be an automatic roll-over of an audit log file.
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