Addition of an interval for updating the activity timestamp

Optionally, the session activity timestamp in the failover cookie can be updated during the user's session.

This entry contains an integer value that specifies the interval (in seconds) used to update the failover cookie's activity timestamp.

The default entry is:

When failover-update-cookie is set to 0, the last activity timestamp is updated with each request.

When failover-update-cookie is set to an integer less than 0 (any negative number), the last activity timestamp is never updated.

When failover-update-cookie is set to an integer greater than 0, the session activity timestamp in the cookie is updated at intervals of this number of seconds.

The value chosen for this stanza entry can affect performance. See Addition of data to a failover cookie. When we set failover-update-cookie to a number greater than zero, ensure that you also set session-activity-timestamp = add. If we do not set session-activity-timestamp = add, WebSEAL will decode the failover cookie on each user access. This repetitive action could adversely affect performance. See Add the session activity timestamp.

Parent topic: Failover authentication configuration