Auto Login for Custom UI?

[vincikb]

Does anyone have a solution to auto login with a username and password for the custom UI?  We have vCenter Ops displayed on 4 large TV's in our area and once a week all of the Firefox windows will just timeout and the only solution is to close the browsers and log back in.  I was thinking of creating a macro to type in the username and password as I have tried multiple browser plug-ins to try and have it single signon but none of them can detect the login fields.  Just throwing it out for any ideas before I create my own.  Thank You

[gradinka]

I guess you have increased the timeout to "unlimited" in the web.xml file?
VMware KB: Changing or disabling the UI session timeout for vCenter Operations Manager vApp

as to scripts, Selenium should work.. also Perl with the appropriate modules should work (haven't tried though)

[JLackman]

I have used Firefox with "ReloadEvery" for this exact same scenario. Did you try it and it didn't work?

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/reloadevery/

[vincikb]

Thanks to both of you for your suggestions I will try them both.

[vincikb]

The ReloadEvery Firefox addon helps a bit but even after 1 week Firefox just gives up and the dashboard widgets timeout.  Even if you try and manually refresh the browser nothing happens.  The only thing I was able to do was schedule a task once a week to close all of the browsers, load them all again, and then wrote a macro to auto log back in.