Network Deployment (Distributed operating systems), v8.0 > Set up the application serving environment > Work with server configuration files
Handle temporary configuration files resulting from session timeout
If the console is not used for 15 minutes or more, the session times out. The same thing happens if you close the browser window without saving the configuration file. Changes to the file are saved to a temporary file when the session times out, after 15 minutes. This topic discusses what happens depending on whether you load the saved file. A configuration file must have been saved from a previous admin console session for the user ID that you are currently using to access the admin console.
When a session times out, the configuration file in use is saved under the userid/timeout directory under the ServletContext's temp area. This value is the value of the javax.servlet.context.tempdir attribute of the ServletContext context. By default, it is: PROFILE_ROOT/temp/node_name/Administration/admin/admin.war
We can change the temp area by specifying it as a value for the tempDir init-param of the action servlet in the deployment descriptor (web.xml) of the administrative application.
The configuration file is also saved automatically when the same user ID logs into the non-secured console again, effectively starting a different session. This process is equivalent to forcing the existing user ID out of session, similar to a session timing out.
The next time you log on to the admin console, you are prompted to load the saved configuration file. Do one of the following actions:
Procedure
- Load the saved file.
- If a file with the same name exists in the PROFILE_ROOT/config directory, that file is moved to the userid/backup directory in the temp area.
- The saved file is moved to the PROFILE_ROOT/config directory.
- The file is then loaded.
- Do not load the saved file.
The saved file is deleted from the userid/timeout directory in the temp area.
Results
You loaded the saved configuration file if you chose to do so.
What to do next
Once we have logged into the admin console, do whatever administration of WAS that do.
Work with server configuration files