SOA 10.1.3.1 Hints - Episode 3

In today's note we will discover the steps needed to increase the inactivity timeout of the SingleSignOn - enabled consoles shipped with SOA Suite 10.1.3.1.

Some of you might have already noticed, not using the session for some minutes results in a rerouting to the login page.. and if it happens the first time some ohh, arghhh or other words may follow :D

The SOA related web consoles are ..

• BPEL Console (http://host:port/BPELConsole)


• ESB Console (http://host:port/esb/esb/EsbConsole.html)


• Rule Author (http://host:port/ruleauthor)


• and the famous Human Worklist(http://host:port/integration/worklistapp)

As all are deployed in the same way, and are JSSO enabled - here are the steps you need to follow, to increase the timeouts of them.

• 1) Stop your SOA Suite (opmnctl stopall)


• 2) Depending on your installation your OC4J container holding the apps is either located in $ORACLE_HOME/j2ee/home (basic install) or $ORACLE_HOME/j2ee/oc4j_soa (advanced install), which I refer to $OC4J_HOME from now


• 3) Go to $OC4J_HOME/config and backup jazn.xml


• 4) Add a new property called custom.sso.session.timeout inside the <jazn> section, the value is in seconds and should be a multiply of it


• 5) Step by step now - you are going to reconfigure the consoles
  
  
  • BPEL Console
    
    
    • Go to $OC4J_HOME/applications/orabpel/console/WEB-INF and backup web.xml
    
    
    • Add the following fragment

        <session-config>
           <session-timeout>-1</session-timeout>
        </session-config>
      

      
      
      inside the <web-app> tags
      
    
    
    • Go to $OC4J_HOME/applications-deployments/orabpel/console and delete orion-web.xml
    
    
  • ESB Console
    
    
    • Go to $OC4J_HOME/applications/esb-rt/provider-war/WEB-INF and backup web.xml
    
    
    • Add the following fragment

        <session-config>
           <session-timeout>-1</session-timeout>
        </session-config>
      

      
      
      inside the <web-app> tags
      
    
    
    • Go to $OC4J_HOME/application-deployments/esb-rt/provider-war and delete orion-web.xml
    
    
  • Rule Author
    
    
    • Go to $OC4J_HOME/applications/ruleauthor/ruleauthor/WEB-INF and backup web.xml
    
    
    • Add the following fragment

        <session-config>
           <session-timeout>-1</session-timeout>
        </session-config>
      

      
      
      inside the <web-app> tags
      
    
    
    • Go to $OC4J_HOME/application-deployments/ruleauthor/ ruleauthor/ and delete orion-web.xml
    
    
  • Human Worklist
    
    
    • Go to $OC4J_HOME/applications/hw_services/worklistapp/ WEB-INF and backup web.xml
    
    
    • Add the following fragment

        <session-config>
           <session-timeout>-1</session-timeout>
        </session-config>
      

      
      
      inside the <web-app> tags
      
    
    
    • Go to $OC4J_HOME/application-deployments/hw_services/ worklistapp and delete orion-web.xml
  
  
• 6) Start your SOA Suite, by opmnctl startall

Voila, the inactivity timeout in YOUR control