Sessions

Introduction to sessions in ConSol CM

A session starts when a user logs in to one of the clients, and ends when the user logs out or when the session times out. ConSol CM works with concurrent user licenses, i.e. one license is consumed for each active session. A user can have several open sessions, for example if he logs in using two different browsers.

Available information

The Sessions page lists active and finished sessions. The following information is available:

• User name
  The login of the user.
• Client
  The client where the user is logged in; can be Web Client, CM/Track, REST or Web Admin Suite.
• Start date
  The date and time when the session started.
• Last activity
  The date and time of the last user action in the client.
• Type
  The type of user; can be User or Customer.
• End date
  Only for finished sessions. The date and time when the session ended.

Finished sessions are displayed until they are removed from the corresponding table in the ConSol CM database (see cmas-core-server, server.session.archive.timeout).

Basic tasks

• Find a session: Use the search field above the table and the filters to find a certain session. You can sort the sessions by user name to see which users have more than one open session.

• End a session: You can terminate active sessions by clicking the End session icon.

  Any unsaved work of the users whose sessions are terminated will be lost.

• Configure session timeout: You can determine the period of inactivity before a session timeout occurs on the System properties page. The property cmas-core-server, server.session.timeout determines the global timeout. If you want to set another timeout for a specific client, create a dedicated property, e.g. server.session.timeout.WEB_CLIENT.