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

03/26/2020 9 10795

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

RESOLUTION:

How to change the administrator's idle-timeout time via command line (SSH)

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