Increase Timeout settings for Smartview in IIS

Increase Timeout settings for Smartview in IIS

In Normal scenarios, Increasing the session timeout might result in performance issue; as more "dead" sessions are kept open much longer, more processing power is wasted on them. To have long session timeouts is also considered bad practice from a security poit of view. not that these timeouts are anly enforced on idel sessions, i.e. when the user will not "click anything" for that amount of time.  For this reason, rarely need to be set to anything higher than 120 minutes.

The following instruction change the idle timeout from default 20 minutes to 30 mintures in Microsoft Internet Information Services (IIS).

1. Go to Start > All Programs > Adminstrative Tools > Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager.
2. Expand the server node <Server name> (Local computer).
3. Right click on the application pool node.
4. Select Properties
5. Select the performance tab.
6. Change the Idle timeout value from 20 to 30 minutes.
7. Click Appliy.
8. Click OK.
9. Expand the node Seb Sites.
10. Right click on the HFM sebsite
11. Got to Properites > Home Directory tab > Configuration button > Options tab
12. Change the Enable session state > Session timeout value from 20 to 30 minutes.
13. Click OK
14. Click OK
15. Test that timout is not the new value.