Database Management

How to modify DPA web session-timeout

This article shows how to increase or decrease the automatic logout for the DPA web console.

First published date

4/24/2019 3:46 PM

Last published date

10/30/2025 3:13 PM

Overview

If you want to increase (or decrease) the automatic logout for the DPA web console, complete the following steps.

Product section

Database Performance Analyzer

Resolution

Shutdown/Stop DPA service (Ignite PI). Follow here.
Navigate to the directory <DPA dir>/iwc/tomcat/ignite_config/idc.
Make a backup of the system.properties file.
Open the system.properties file in a text editor.
Modify the following section in seconds to change the session timeout, uncomment the modified line, and restart the DPA service:

 # TOMCAT SESSION TIMEOUT (minutes) - Overrides web.xml <session-timeout>
#com.confio.tomcat.session.timeout=720

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