HP Systems Insight Manager 7.3 Installation and Configuration Guide for Linux

Monitor time-out policy
The monitor time-out policy keeps sessions alive, provided the user has a web browser window
open displaying the Systems Insight Manager GUI. Closing the browser or navigating to another
web page starts the timer for the time-out period. The default time-out period is 20 minutes. Users
must use some other means to protect an unattended session from illegal use, such as
password-protected screen savers.
Active time-out policy
The active time-out policy only keeps sessions alive if the user is actively using the GUI, such as
clicking on links and buttons. Display and refresh of the banner is not sufficient to keep the 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:
/opt/mx/jboss/server/hpsim/deploy/jboss-web.deployer/conf/web.xml
Locate the session-timeout element, and set it to a new value in minutes.
<session-timeout>20</session-timeout>
Systems Insight Manager audit log configuration
Overview
Several features of the Systems Insight Manager Audit Log are configurable. For example, you can
specify which tools log data and the maximum Audit Log file size. The Systems Insight Manager
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 Systems Insight Manager 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.
48 Configuration options