Active Sessions (Web UI)

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Both administrators and users sometimes need to find out which user sessions are active and be able to easily disconnect them from a central location. This topic describes why you need to know about active sessions, where you find the list of active sessions, and how to disconnect them, if needed.

This page includes the following:

Understanding User Session Management

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As an administrator, you sometimes need to check which user sessions are active in the domains for which you are responsible When you are doing upgrades or triage of a user or system problem, you might need to know which user sessions are currently active and you might need to disconnect some or all of them. As an AAI user, when you have logged yourself into several active sessions, you might want to find a list of them and disconnect ones that you are no longer using.

You can end up with several open sessions when you do not successfully log out of AAI and then you restart AAI and log in again. This can happen, for example, when you do not log out before you close the browser tab or window that AAI is open in, or if you log in from a different device without logging out from the original device.

The Active Sessions Tab Page

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You can get a list of active user sessions and disconnect ones as you need on the Active Sessions tab page.

To open the Active Sessions tab page

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From the navigation pane on the left, select Settings, then User Management.
Click the Active Sessions tab.

Which user sessions I can see

On the Active Sessions tab, you see a list of the AAI sessions that are currently active for all users that you have rights to view or edit, and you always can see your own active sessions. This means the following:

If you are a regular user in the JAWS or LDAP domains you see only the sessions of your user in any of the domains that you are defined in.
If you are an admin user in the JAWS or LDAP domains, you see your and all the users in those domains.
If you are a user in eEM domain, you see your and all the users that you have access rights to see.

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The Active Sessions list contains the following columns:

User: The username of the user with the active session.
Domain: The type of domain that the user is defined in. This can be JAWS, LDAP, Kerberos, or eEM.

A user can be defined in more than one domain.
Login Time: The date and time in the user's preferred time zone that the session was established.
Client: The name or IP address of the location of the client that is logged into.
Client Type: The source of the user's connection. This can be one of the following:
- jawsRestApi: The AAI web interface
- GUI: The AAI thick client
- CLI: The AAI command line interface
- Import/Export: The AAI import or export utility.
- Thin Client: Any other system user of the AAI Java API, such as the CA Workload Control Center (WCC).
App ID: The unique application ID.

You can sort and rearrange the columns as you like. For more information, see Working with Tables (Web Interface).

Disconnecting Active User Sessions

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There are two places that you can see information about active user sessions:

On the All Users tab page of the User Management section, for each listed user, you see the number of active sessions in the Active Sessions column. For more information, see Users.

The number of your user sessions as well as those for all users that you are allowed to disconnect are in a blue circle. All others are grayed out.
On the Active Sessions tab page of the User Management section, you see the list of your own active sessions and those of the users that you are allowed to disconnect.

In this section, you find a description of the Active Sessions tab page and the following steps:

To Disconnect Your Own Active Sessions
To Disconnect Any Active Sessions

To Disconnect Your Own Active Sessions

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You can always see a list of all the sessions that your user is currently active in, and from there disconnect any sessions you no longer need open.

To disconnect one or more of your active sessions, use the following steps:

Go to Settings and then select User Management.
Click the Active Sessions tab.
In the checkboxes in the left-most column, select the sessions that you want to disconnect.

To select all users, select the checkbox in the table header. Click again to deselect all users.

You cannot disconnect the session that you are currently logged into, and the checkbox for that session is not selectable.
Click the Disconnect x sessions button in the toolbar. Confirm that you want to disconnect them.

To Disconnect Any Active Sessions

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If you are an admin user in a JAWS or LDAP domain, you can see a list of the active sessions of all users on those domains, and you can disconnect one or more of the active sessions of any of those users. If you are an eEM user, you can see the active sessions of only users that you have rights to manage.

To disconnect one or more active sessions for one or more users, use the following steps:

Go to Settings and then select User Management.
Click the Active Sessions tab.
Select the sessions that you want to disconnect.

You can do this by individually selecting the checkboxes in the left-most column for each of those sessions. Alternatively, if you want to locate specific types of sessions and select multiple sessions in a few clicks, you can do a combination of the following:
- Use filters to reduce the list to the active sessions that you are interested in. For more information, see Filtering the Active Sessions List.
- Sort the list by one or more columns to bring the active sessions that you are interested in to the top of the list, or those you do not care about to the bottom. For more information, see Working with Tables (Web Interface).
- To select all the sessions that are included on the page based on any filters that you applied, click the checkbox in the left-most column of the title row of the list. (You see the total number of filtered sessions to the right below the table.)
- To select a series of active sessions in the list, click the checkbox of the top session, then holding the Shift key, click the last session you want to select. If this spans several pages, hold the Shift key and keep paging forward with the right Go to next arrow to the right below the table, and when you get to the last session that you want, select its checkbox.
You cannot disconnect the session that you are currently logged into, and the checkbox for that session is not selectable.
Click the Disconnect x sessions button in the toolbar. Confirm that you want to disconnect them.

Filtering the Active Sessions List

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Filtering allows you to customize the list of sessions on the Active Sessions tab of the User Management page. The following are the attributes that you can filter on:

Client: Enter an exact name or IP address of the location of the client that is logged into, or use various full-text search options to find certain clients.
Client Type: Enter an exact client type, or use various full-text search options to find certain client types. Available client types are: jawsRestApi, GUI, CLI, Improt/Export, Thin Client
Domain: Select from a list of domains that are in use in this AAI installation.
Role: Select from a list of user roles, such as Admin and User.
User: Enter an exact username, or use various full-text search options to find certain users.

Important!

When you add multiple attributes to your filter, they are put together as AND options. They all must be true for the object to be included.

When you add more than one filter parameter for an attribute, the values are put together as OR options. Any of them can be true for the object to be included.

For more information on how to define and apply filter attributes and filter parameters, see Using Filters (Web Interface).