V-283936

Discussion

Terminating an idle session within a short time period reduces the window of opportunity for unauthorized personnel to take control of a management session enabled on the console or console port that has been left unattended. In addition, quickly terminating an idle session will also free up resources committed by the managed network element. Terminating network connections associated with communications sessions includes, for example, de-allocating associated TCP/IP address/port pairs at the operating system level, or de-allocating networking assignments at the application level if multiple application sessions are using a single, operating system-level network connection. This does not mean that the application terminates all sessions or network access; it only ends the inactive session and releases the resources associated with that session.

Check Content

Check the Fly Server Manager session setting:
- Log on to Fly Server Manager with an admin account.
- On the Management >> General Settings page, click the "System Option" tab. 
- Verify the "Session Will Expire After Inactivity for:" setting is selected.

If this setting is not 10 minutes, this is a finding.