Configuring The Logout Disconnect Interval - Novell ACCESS MANAGER 3.1 SP2 - ACCESS GATEWAY GUIDE 2010 Manual

IMPORTANT: Save a copy of your modified
your Access Gateway, you need to restore this file.
Calling Different Logout Pages
If you need to use a different logout page for specific protected resources, you need to modify the
logout button of the applications to use the plogout URL rather that the AGLogout URL (see
Section 2.10.1, "Customizing Applications to Use the Access Gateway Logout Page," on page
The AGLogout page redirects to the plogout page, which calls the
cannot modify the AGLogout URL for parameters, because they are discarded. However, any
parameter added to the plogout URL is saved and passed to the
The parameter passed to the
the page to load different custom logout pages based on the parameter value.
To use the plogout URL, you need to modify the application's logout button to call the following
URL:
<ESP Domain>/nesp/app/plogout
Replace <ESP Domain> with the same value as the AGLogout value. For example, suppose your
AGLogout value is the following:
https://jwilson1.provo.novell.com:443/AGLogout
You would replace it with the following value:
https://jwilson1.provo.novell.com:443/nesp/app/plogout
If you add a parameter to the URL, it would look similar to the following:
https://jwilson1.provo.novell.com:443/nesp/app/plogout?app=email

2.10.3 Configuring the Logout Disconnect Interval

When a user clicks the logout button and the user is logging out of an Access Gateway that is a
member of a cluster, the user is not immediately disconnected from the resource. The logout
message must be sent to each member of the cluster. The default interval for checking the pending
logout message queue is 30 seconds. If this interval is too long, you can configure a shorter interval
in the file of the Embedded Service Provider. This must be set on each Access Gateway in
web.xml
the cluster.
1 Log in to the Access Gateway as the root or administrator user.
2 Open the .
web.xml
Linux:
/opt/novell/nesp/lib/webapps/WEB-INF/web.xml
Windows:
/Program Files/Novell/nesp/lib/webapps/WEB-INF/web.xml
3 Find the
<context-param>
4 Add the following parameter to the
<context-param>
<param-name>logoutRetirementFrequency</param-name>
<param-value>15000</param-value>
</context-param>
logoutSuccess.jsp
file can be used with if/else logic in the body of
logoutSuccess.jsp
section in the file.
<context-param>
file. Every time you upgrade
logoutSuccess.jsp
logoutSuccess.jsp
section.
Server Configuration Settings 107
105).
. You
file.