Logging Out of the VMware Management Interface
Logging Out of the VMware Management Interface

When you are ready to log out of the VMware Management Interface, click Logout. You are prompted to confirm that you want to log out. Logging out of the VMware Management Interface does not affect the virtual machines on the server or any consoles you opened from the management interface.

VMware Management Interface sessions expire automatically after 60 minutes of inactivity or idle time.

On a Windows host, this setting is specified by the variable vmware_SESSION_LENGTH, stored in C:\Program Files\VMware\VMware Management Interface\htdocs\dispatch.pl. You can change this setting to any number of minutes, or you can block access to the management interface for all users by setting vmware_SESSION_LENGTH to 0 minutes. In addition, you can allow for persistent sessions that never time out by setting vmware_SESSION_LENGTH to - 1.

On a Linux host, you can change this setting by running the management interface configuration program vmware-config-mui.pl. You can block access to the management interface for all users by setting the timeout length to 0 minutes. On the other hand, you can allow for persistent sessions that never time out by setting the timeout length to -1.