This is the documentation for Cloudera Enterprise 5.8.x. Documentation for other versions is available at Cloudera Documentation.

Automatic Logout

For security purposes, Cloudera Manager automatically logs out a user session after 30 minutes. You can change this session logout period.

To configure the timeout period:
  1. Click Administration > Settings.
  2. Click Category > Security.
  3. Edit the Session Timeout property.
  4. Click Save Changes to commit the changes.

When the timeout is one minute from triggering, the user sees the following message:

If the user does not click the mouse or press a key, the user is logged out of the session and the following message appears:

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