Task overview: Managing HTTP sessions

The Session Manager service manages HTTP sessions.

1. Plan the approach to session management, which could include...
   • session tracking
   • session recovery
   • session clustering

2. Modify custom applications to use session support to maintain sessions on behalf of Web apps.
3. Assemble the application.
4. Deploy the application.

5. Ensure the administrator appropriately configures session management in the admin domain.

6. Adjust configuration settings and perform other tuning activities for optimal use of sessions in the environment.

Sessions
HTTP session migration
Develop session management in servlets
Assembling so that session data can be shared
Session security support
Session management support
Set session management by level
Session tracking options
Set session tracking
Set session tracking for Wireless Application Protocol devices
Distributed sessions
Session recovery support
Set for database session persistence
Memory-to-memory replication
Memory-to-memory session partitioning
Clustered session support
Set memory-to-memory replication for the peer-to-peer mode (default memory-to-memory replication)
Set memory-to-memory replication for the client/server mode
Session management tuning
HTTP sessions: Links
Scheduled invalidation
Set write contents
Set write frequency
Base in-memory session pool size
HTTP session invalidation
Write operations
Tuning parameter settings
Tuning parameter custom settings
Best practices for using HTTP sessions
HTTP session manager troubleshooting tips
HTTP session problems