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Web Tools Administrator’s Guide 1-13
Publication Number: 53-0000522-09
Session Management
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A session remains in effect until one of the following happens:
• You log out.
• You close or navigate away from the Switch Explorer window (if upfront login is enabled).
• You refresh the Switch Explorer window (if upfront login is enabled).
• You close the child window (if upfront login is disabled).
• The session times out due to inactivity.
A session automatically times out if it has been inactive for longer than two hours. Inactivity does not
mean “no user activity” (such as keystrokes or mouse movements); it means “no information sent to the
switch” (by clicking Apply or Save buttons). For example, in the Zoning module you can spend a lot of
time setting up a zoning scheme without actually sending information to the switch. Web Tools does not
display a warning when the session is about to time out. If the session times out, you must restart Web
Tools and log in again.
Web Tools enables sessions to both secure and nonsecure switches.