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Status Not under consideration
Created by Guest
Created on Jun 9, 2025

Add option Session expiration time

In addition to this delivered option for idle session logout

https://ibm-sys-storage.ideas.ibm.com/ideas/CSM-I-123


Security requirements are asking for a an absolute logout. A user is logged in, but can stay logged in indefinitely if not idle. The option to have an absolute timeout or whole session expiry would help.


Idea priority Low
  • Guest
    Jun 9, 2025
    Spoke to the customer directly. They are familar with the auto logout setting but were asking for an absolute logout. The current auto logout is based on inactivity. The user will be logged out if not active. The request was to log out the user after a certain timeframe regardless of activity.

    I think this is too dangerous to implement from a CSM perspective. Customer do a lot of scripting and automation on CSM. To logout a user based on an absolute time could cause detrimental issues to that automation. Declining this request.
  • Guest
    Jun 9, 2025
    Hey, Dan. This was already implemented awhile back. On the Advanced Tools tab there is a "Set Logout Time" value. You can set that from 0 to 10080 minutes. CSM will auto logout a user based on that value in the GUI/CLI.