topic Re: IDLE status in dashboard in Horizon Desktops and Apps

IDLE status in dashboard

bjohn — Mon, 27 Apr 2020 11:57:11 GMT

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

Shreyskar — Mon, 27 Apr 2020 15:32:13 GMT

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

Mickeybyte2 — Mon, 27 Apr 2020 15:44:46 GMT

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

Shreyskar — Mon, 27 Apr 2020 15:56:32 GMT

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

bjohn — Thu, 30 Apr 2020 01:55:24 GMT

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

chrisdhalstead — Thu, 30 Apr 2020 14:01:16 GMT

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

bjohn — Thu, 30 Apr 2020 17:15:22 GMT

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

jabrony — Fri, 04 Dec 2020 20:51:54 GMT

@chrisdhalstead Chris are those samples still available?