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How to change the administrator idle timeout time on the Sonicwall via command line

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    How to change the administrator idle timeout time on the Sonicwall via command line.

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    How to change the administrator's idle-timeout time via command line (SSH)
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    1. Enter Config Mode
    Type Command: config

    2. From the Config prompt
    Type Command: administration

    You should see this at the prompt
    (config-administration)#

    3. From the (config-administration)# prompt
    Type Command: idle-logout-time 100

    NOTE:If you are wanting to adjust the CLI timeout, the command would then be "cli idle-timeout * "  where * is the timeout requested.

     
    4. To apply the changes
    Type Command: commit

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