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PowerProtect Data Manager 19.9 Security Configuration Guide

Configure SSH session timeout

This topic describes how the PowerProtect Data Manager console behaves for connections with prolonged inactivity. These steps also change the behavior of the timeout mechanism that regulates SSH sessions.

About this task

The default SSH session timeout is 3600 seconds (60 minutes).

Steps

  1. Connect to the PowerProtect Data Manager console and change to the root user.
  2. Using a Linux text editor, open /etc/ssh/sshd_config.
  3. Modify the following property:
    PropertyDescription
    ClientAliveInterval The number of seconds of inactivity after which PowerProtect Data Manager terminates the SSH session.
  4. Save and close the file.
  5. Reload the SSH daemon to apply the changes:
    systemctl reload sshd

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