How to increase the inactivity timeout when logged in via ESM

How to increase the inactivity timeout when logged in via ESM

When you are logged into the System Admin tool, right click on the area of System Alarm and select View Source. In the contents you will see your sessionId as:

var SessionID = '27263';
//-->

Then from telnet use the command
sm_setSessionTimeout <sessionID>, <timeout in seconds>

So if you want the timeout to be and hour for the session id mentioned above it would be sm_setSessionTimeout 27263, 3600


You can also use sm_displaySessionInfo to show all the active sessions but if multiple people are logged in, it could be difficult to determine your own session ID (tool will be 2 for Sys Admin tool).


Example: This will set my timeout to 5 seconds

-> sm_displaySessionInfo
Access Time IP Address Mode SessionID State Tool
----------- ---------- ---- --------- ----- ----
06-01@13:43 UNKNOWN 0 15569 0 4
06-01@13:43 UNKNOWN 0 31909 0 2
value = 0 = 0x0
-> sm_setSessionTimeout 31909, 5
value = 0 = 0x0

Also note that after a backup the session timeout will likely be reset to the default time.