OAS timeout

ISSUE:
Customer is running a JAS server using OAS and needs to find out how to set the time out settings.
From an HTML client, the system times out within 15 minutes.


SOLUTION:
Oracle AS Session timeout is by default set to 20 minutes. To set higher timeout, please follow the steps as described below.

FOR OAS 10.1.3:
1. Select your OC4J container
2. Click on "Application" Link
3. Click on link for your E1 JAS OC4J, eg "EA_JS_81"
4. Click on the link for webmodule, "webclient"
5. Click on link for "Administration"
6. Under "Go to Task" column, click on icon for "Configuration Properties"
7. Set the Session timeout value in Seconds
8. Restart the OC4J instance


FOR OAS 10.1.2.0.2

1.) Update the WEB.XML

a.) Navigate to JAS Application under /j2ee//applications/jasapp/webclient/WEB-INF
b.) Make sure that server is not running.
c.) Edit the WEB.XML file using Notepad.
d.) Place the 3-line session-timeout stanza in the WEB.XML file like this:
...

MOViewerServlet
MOViewerServlet
com.peoplesoft.e1.container.MafletServiceContainer

maflet.name
MOViewerServlet




30


Where the number entered for "session-timeout" is the desired session timeout in minutes.


2.) Update Apache:

a.) Find the httpd.conf file located in /Apache/Apache/conf
b.) In the httpd.conf file, change the "Timeout" value.

Timeout 300

This value is in seconds and is set to a default of 5 minutes (300 seconds) and should be changed to match your desired timeout. (e.g. 1800 for 30 minutes, 3600 for 1 hour).


3.) Update the MOD_oc4j.CONF (located in ORACLE_HOME>/Apache/Apache/conf)


a.) To update this file, refer to the document using link:
http://download-west.oracle.com/docs/cd/B14099_07/web.1012/b14007/confmods.htm#CIHJCHHH

You will need to add/change the value for "Oc4jConnTimeout" to be that of the time (in seconds) before the connection timeout occurs (e.g. 1800 for 30 minutes, 3600 for 1 hour).


4.) Update the UserSession value in the relevant JAS.INI (located here: /j2ee//applications/jasapp/webclient/WEB-INF/classes)
to match the timeout set in the other three steps listed above. The JAS.INI value will need to be entered as milliseconds (e.g. 1800000 for 30 minutes, 3600000 for 1 hour).

The JAS.INI setting for timeout is as follows:
[CACHE]
# These intervals are in milliseconds. For example, 60000ms = 1 minute, 3600000ms= 1 hour
UserSession=3600000 <====

Working with steps 1 and 4 above should suffice. However, it may be necessary to also complete above steps 2 and 3 should you not see your changes enforce your desired timeout setting. Also, note that this is a crucial timeout value. Setting your timeout higher than 30 minutes may cause higher memory usage and out of memory conditions. Please take care in using this setting as performance may be affected adversely.