Communication Tab

Settings on the Communication tab control connections between the client device, the SGD server, and application servers. They also control the resumability behavior for application sessions.

From the command line, use the tarantella config list command to list these settings, and the tarantella config edit command to edit these settings.

This tab contains the following sections:

• Ports

  This section contains the following attributes:

  • Unencrypted Connections Port

  • Encrypted Connections Port

• Application Sessions

  This section contains the following attributes:

  • AIP Keepalive Frequency

  • Timeout for User Session Resumability

  • Timeout for General Resumability

• Synchronization

  This section contains the Resource Synchronization Service attribute.

• User Sessions

  This section contains the User Session Idle Timeout attribute.

Unencrypted Connections Port

Usage: Type a port number in the field.

Description

The TCP port number used for unencrypted connections between client devices and SGD servers.

Open this port in your firewall to enable connections from users who have standard connections. Standard connections are connections that do not use SSL.

You must restart every SGD server in the array for changes to this attribute to take effect.

The default is TCP port 3144.

Command Line

Command option: --array-port-unencrypted tcp-port

Usage: Replace tcp-port with the port number to use for unencrypted connections.

In the following example, TCP port 3144 is used for unencrypted connections.

--array-port-unencrypted 3144

Encrypted Connections Port

Usage: Type a port number in the field.

Description

The TCP port number used for encrypted connections between client devices and SGD servers.

Open this port in your firewall to enable connections from users who have secure (SSL-based) connections to SGD.

You must restart every SGD server in the array for changes to this attribute to take effect.

The default is TCP port 5307.

Command Line

Command option: --array-port-encrypted tcp-port

Usage: Replace tcp-port with the port number to use for encrypted connections.

In the following example, TCP port 5307 is used for encrypted connections.

--array-port-encrypted 5307

AIP Keepalive Frequency

Usage: Type a time period, measured in seconds, in the field.

Description

Determines how often a keepalive message is sent to client devices during application sessions. The default value is 100 seconds.

Some Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) proxy servers close a connection if there is no activity on it. Using a keepalive ensures that a connection stays open.

Set this to 0 to disable keepalive messages.

This attribute is also used keep open connections between the SGD Client and the SGD server for client drive mapping.

You must restart every SGD server in the array for changes to this attribute to take effect.

Command Line

Command option: --sessions-aipkeepalive secs

Usage: Replace secs with the keepalive time period, measured in seconds.

In the following example, a keepalive message is sent to the client device every 100 seconds.

--sessions-aipkeepalive 100

Timeout for User Session Resumability

Usage: Type a timeout value, measured in minutes, in the field.

Description

For applications configured to be resumable during the user session, the length of time in minutes that a suspended application session is guaranteed to be resumable for if the connection to SGD is lost. Note that if the user logs out, the application sessions end. See the Application Resumability attribute.

After this period, the SGD server ends the session.

You can override this setting using the Application Resumability: Timeout attribute of an application.

Changes to this attribute take effect immediately.

Command Line

Command option: --sessions-timeout-session mins

Usage: Replace mins with the timeout value, measured in minutes.

In the following example, the application session is resumable for 1440 minutes (24 hours).

--sessions-timeout-session 1440

Timeout for General Resumability

Usage: Type a timeout value, measured in minutes, in the field.

Description

For applications configured to be generally resumable, the length of time in minutes that a suspended application session is guaranteed to be resumable for after the user logs out or the connection to SGD is lost. See the Application Resumability attribute.

After this period the SGD server ends the session.

You can override this setting using the Application Resumability: Timeout attribute of an application.

Changes to this attribute take effect immediately.

Command Line

Command option: --sessions-timeout-always mins

Usage: Replace mins with the timeout value, measured in minutes.

In the following example, the application session is resumable for 11500 minutes.

--sessions-timeout-always 11500

Resource Synchronization Service

Usage: Select or deselect the check box.

Description

Whether to enable replication of resources for the array.

If enabled, synchronization starts at a time determined by the Daily Resource Synchronization Time for each SGD server in the array.

Resource synchronization is enabled by default.

Changes to this attribute take effect immediately.

Command Line

Command option: --array-resourcesync 1 | 0

Usage: Specify 1 (true) or 0 (false).

The following example disables resource synchronization for the array.

--array-resourcesync 0

User Session Idle Timeout

Usage: Type a timeout value, measured in seconds, in the field.

Description

User sessions are ended automatically if there has been no application session or webtop activity for the specified time period. The timeout applies to all SGD servers in the array.

The user session idle timeout is disabled by default. A setting of 0 turns off the feature.

Activity on the following devices has no effect on the idle timeout period:

• Serial ports

• Smart cards

• Audio

You must restart every SGD server in the array for changes to this attribute to take effect.

Command Line

Command option: --webtop-session-idle-timeout secs

Usage: Replace secs with the timeout value, measured in seconds.

In the following example, user sessions are ended automatically after being inactive for 1800 seconds, or 30 minutes.

--webtop-session-idle-timeout 1800