I had previously inquired about how to extend the annoyingly short session timer for CUCM Admin sessions.

Recently a co-worker stumbled onto how to do this and shared the info with me. You do it from the command line, ie, using something like Putty, etc., you telnet to the box and log in. Once there the command syntax is:

set cli session timeout x

where 'x' can be any value between 5 and 99999 minutes. i.e., to extend the session timer from the default 30 minutes to 90 minutes the command would be:

set cli session timer 5400

Initially I thought this might apply only to the CLI session, but discovered that it also affects the ADMIN GUI session.

Tnx to Mark T for discovering this.

Original MUG/NAMU Charter Member

I know this sounds odd,but wanted to share this crazy find as well;
When i log into the GUI Adm,I will go to the Serviceability tab and click on tools and open/close one of the tabs and go back to Administration and funny thing happens ,I never get logged out,the session stays up all day. CUCM 7.1.2