Configuring Business Objects 4.0 Session Timeout Settings

The BI Launchpad comes out of the box with a default the timeout sessions configured to 20 minutes.

If you would like this changed then there are a few areas that need to be changed.

1. Change session setting in Web.xml File

• Go to <Install Directory>\SAP Business Objects\Tomcat6\webapps\BOE\WEB-INF
• Open web.xml file in notepad Search for the following tag in web.xml:

• Search for the following tag in web.xml:
  
• Change the session timeout to required time such as 120 minutes.
  

1. 
   Change settings for CMC
   

• Log onto to Central Management Console (CMC)
  
• And go to Servers
  

• Under Server List go to Web Intelligence Server
  
• Right Mouse Click on Web Intelligence Server and click Properties
  
• Change Idle Document Timeout (it is in seconds) 300
  
• Change Idle Connection Timeout (it is in minutes) 540
  

• Change the timeout at the end of command line.
  

1. Restart the services
   

• Go to CCM – Start > All Programs > SAP Business Intelligence > SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform 4 > Central Configuration Manager
  

• Stop Apache Tomcat and start back
  
• Stop SIA and start it back
  

 

1. Make changes to Registry (These setting should be changed by Windows Admin)
   

• Open the Registry Editor by going to Start > Run > regedit
  
• Locate the: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ SAP BusinessObjects\Suite XI 4.0\CMS\Instances\ <NodeName>.cms node
  
• Set the. IdleSessionTimeout to 14400000
  

• Locate the  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\ SAP BusinessObjects\Suite XI 4.0\default\WebIntelligence\Server\Admin\SwapTimeOut node
  
• Set the SwapTimeOut to 3600000