4.10  Logging Off

It is not necessary to manually log off SEA. Once your connection to the Director is closed, SEA will automatically log off your profile after the log off time elapses. By default, the log off time is set to ten minutes, however, you can configure the time from the User Settings screen (see Section 4.8.1).

You can close your connection by exiting your browser or navigating to a web site outside of the SEA web interface. SEA continues to process requests and stores your data after you have closed your connection (as a result, SEA continues to consume memory resources). If you restore your connection to the Director before the log off time elapses, your data will remain intact. This enables you to browse other web sites without losing your SEA data. However, if the connection with the Director is closed, once the log off time elapses, all the data associated with your SEA session is lost and the memory resources used by SEA are released. Thus, if you return to SEA after the log off time has elapsed, you will not be able to view the results of processing.

For example, if your log off time is set to 120 minutes and you start processing a log file before switching to another web site, you have two hours during which SEA will continue to process the log file and maintain your data. If you return to SEA before the two hours elapses, processing will continue and all your data will be maintained. If you don't return to SEA within the two hours, processing is terminated and your data will be lost as memory resources are cleaned up.

Note


If you set the log off time to zero, you will be logged off and lose your data if you click the refresh button in your browser or if you click a link that opens a page outside SEA.


The following list shows some possible log off times and the time frame they represent:

Lost Connection

If your connection to the Director is lost for any reason, the message in Figure 4–40 appears in the toolbar.

Figure 4–40 Lost Connection Message
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