HP ProLiant DL980 G7 Server - Manual (Page 25)

You can also access HP ESO online help by accessing the Online Help page, as described in
“Online help” (page 54) .
Creating an authenticated Administrator Session (Admin Session)
An Administrator session is created to ensure that only one authenticated user can use and change
the different parameters in the system and the SQL Server. When an Admin Session is started by
a user, other users will be blocked from accessing the ESO pages.
Before using ESO, make sure to start an Admin Session by clicking Enter Admin Session on the
top left corner of the page (see
Figure 21 (page 25) ). This will start an exclusive session for the
current SMH user that will last for 30 minutes by default. The session time limit may be reset to the
full 30 minutes by clicking Extend Session. The number of minutes remaining in the current session
will be shown at the Time Left field. If the time left reaches 0, you need to start an Admin Session
again to continue working on ESO. An “In Admin Session” message indicates that an Admin
Session is currently active.
NOTE: The default session timeout of 30 minutes is configurable and may be overridden by
entering the new timeout value in the New Value field in the ESO Session Configuration section of
the SQL Server Login page. For more information, see
“Modifying the Admin Session timeout value”
(page 27) .
If an Admin Session has not been started, the system will display detailed steps for starting a
session, as shown in
Figure 21 (page 25) .
Figure 21 Steps to enter an Admin Session
SQL Server Login: Setting credentials and logging into SQL Server and Analysis
Services instances
Upon starting an Admin Session, the SQL Server Login page appears, as shown in Figure 22
(page 26) . The page displays all SQL Server and Analysis Services instances along with input
boxes for entering login credentials. This page allows you to enter login credentials and the
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