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bjohn
Enthusiast
Enthusiast

IDLE status in dashboard

In the Horizon console dashboard, it shows, Active, Disconnected and Idle. Anyone know how idle status is determined? Thanks

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Shreyskar
VMware Employee
VMware Employee

The time since user is inactive, is calculated as 'Idle' time and based on 'Idle Time Until Disconnect (VDI)', session gets disconnected after that.

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Mickeybyte2
Hot Shot
Hot Shot

I think the question was: after how many seconds of doing nothing is a session set as "idle"?

Regards, Michiel.
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Shreyskar
VMware Employee
VMware Employee

The default value is 900 secs (15min) before a session is marked as idle.

This can be changed using below reg. A value of -1 can be set to indicate that the session will never be considered idle.

Registry Hive HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE

Registry Path Software\Policies\VMware, Inc.\VMware VDM\Agent\Configuration\XMLAPI

Value Name userIdleTimeout

Value Type REG_SZ

Default Value 900

For details check https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/56636

bjohn
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Thanks for the info. Is it possible to see which sessions are idle? I don't think I can click on the graph

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chrisdhalstead
VMware Employee
VMware Employee

You can see which sessions are idle or for how long with PowerCLI - this sample returns that data:

CODE1458-Samples/Horizon 7 Samples/PowerCLI Sample at master · chrisdhalstead/CODE1458-Samples · Git...

Chris Halstead
Senior Staff Architect, EUC Technical Marketing
chalstead@vmware.com
Twitter: @chrisdhalstead
bjohn
Enthusiast
Enthusiast

OK. Would be great if we can drill down to the idle users in the console.

jabrony
Contributor
Contributor

@chrisdhalstead Chris are those samples still available?  

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