• SonicOS and SonicOSX 7 Users
• Configuring Users Status
  • Logging Out Users
    • Logging Out a Single User
    • Logging Out Multiple Users
  • Displaying Inactive Users
  • Displaying Unauthenticated Users
  • Displaying the User Count
  • Refreshing the Users List
• Configuring User Settings
  • User Login Settings
    • Setting the Authentication Method for Login
    • Setting the Single-Sign-On Methods
    • Requiring User Names be Treated as Case-Sensitive
    • Preventing Users From Logging in from More than One Location
    • Forcing Users to Log In Immediately After Changing Their Passwords
    • Displaying User Login Information Since the Last Login
  • One-Time Password Settings
  • Configuring the User Web Login Settings
    • Setting the Timeout for the Authentication Page
    • Setting How the Browser is Redirected
    • Managing Redirections to the Login Page
    • Using a CHAP challenge to Authenticate Users
    • Redirecting Unauthenticated Users
    • Adding URLs to Authentication Bypass
  • User Session Settings
    • User Session Settings for SSO-Authenticated Users
    • User Session Settings for Web Login
  • Accounting
    • Configuring RADIUS Accounting
      • Sending RADIUS Accounting Information to Servers
      • Configuring User Accounting
      • Testing RADIUS Accounting
      • Editing RADIUS Servers
      • Deleting RADIUS Servers
    • Configuring TACACS+ Accounting
• Configuring and Managing Partitions
  • Authentication Partitioning Settings
  • Authentication Partitions
    • Adding Partitions and Subpartitions
    • Deleting Partitions and Subpartitions
      • Deleting All Partitions
      • Deleting Multiple Partitions
      • Deleting a Single Partition
  • Assigning Servers, Agents, and Clients
    • Manually Assigning Servers, Agents, and Clients
    • Automatically Assigning Servers, Agents, and Clients
  • Editing Partitions
• Configuring Guest Services
  • Adding Guest Profiles
  • Editing Guest Profiles
  • Deleting Guest Profiles
• Configuring Guest Accounts
  • Adding Guest Accounts
  • Editing Guest Accounts
  • Deleting Guest Accounts
    • Deleting a Guest Account
    • Deleting Multiple Guest Accounts
    • Deleting All Guest Accounts
  • Managing Guest Status
    • Logging Out Guests
    • Logging Out All Guests
• Configuring Local Users and Groups
  • About Authentication and Passwords
    • Using Two-Factor Authentication
    • Enforcing First Login Password Change
  • Configuring Local Users
    • Quota Control for all Users
    • Viewing Local Users
    • Adding Local Users
      • Configuring Local Users Settings
      • Configuring Local Users Groups
      • Configuring Local Users VPN Access
      • Configuring Local Users User Quota
    • Editing Local Users
  • Configuring Local Groups
    • Adding Local Groups
      • Configuring Local Groups Settings
      • Configuring Local Group Settings Members
      • Configuring Local Group Settings VPN Access
      • Configuring Local Group Settings Administration
    • Editing Local Groups
• SonicWall Support
  • About This Document

User Session Settings for SSO-Authenticated Users

To specify how inactive SSO-authenticated users are handled

1. Navigate to Users > Settings > User Sessions.

2. To put a user identified to the SonicWall network security appliance through an SSO mechanism, but no traffic has yet been received from the user, into an inactive state so they do not use resources, select On being notified of a login make the user initially inactive until they send traffic. The users remain in an inactive state until traffic is received. This option is selected by default.

   Some SSO mechanisms do not give any way for the SonicWall network security appliance to actively re-identify a user, and if users identified by such a mechanism do not send traffic, they remain in the inactive state until the appliance eventually receives a logout notification for the user. For other users who can be re-identified, if they stay inactive and do not send traffic, they are aged-out and removed after a period (see the paragraphs that follow).

3. If an SSO-identified user who has been actively logged in is timed out because of inactivity, then users who cannot be re-identified are returned to an inactive state. To have users who would otherwise be logged out on inactivity to be returned to an inactive state, select On inactivity timeout make all user inactive instead of logged out. Doing this avoids overhead and possible delays re-identifying the users when they become active again. This setting is selected by default.

4. For inactive users who are subject to getting aged out, you can set the time, in minutes, after which they are aged-out and removed if they stay inactive and do not send traffic by selecting Age out inactive users after (minutes) and specifying the timeout in the field. This setting is selected by default, and the minimum timeout value is 10 minutes, the maximum is 10000 minutes, and the default is 60 minutes.

   As the reason for keeping inactive user separate from active users is to minimize the resources used to manage them, the age-out timer runs once every 10 minutes. It might, therefore, take up to 10 minutes longer to remove inactive users from active status.

5. Click Update.