Enables a timer that disconnects Telnet, SSH2, and console sessions after a period of inactivity (20 minutes is default).
This command has no arguments or variables.
Enabled.
Timeout 20 minutes.
You can use this command to ensure that a Telnet, Secure Shell (SSH2), or console session is disconnected if it has been idle for the required length of time.
This ensures that there are no hanging connections.
To change the period of inactivity that triggers the timeout for a Telnet, SSH2, or console session, use the configure timezone command.
To view the status of idle timeouts on the switch, use the show management command. The show management command displays information about the switch including the enable/disable state for idle timeouts. You can configure the length of the timeout interval.
The following command enables a timer that disconnects any Telnet, SSH2, and console sessions after 20 minutes of inactivity:
enable cli idle-timeout
This command was first available in ExtremeXOS 10.1.
The cli keyword was added and the idletimeout keyword was changed to idle-timeout in ExtremeXOS 30.3.
This command is available on ExtremeSwitching X435, X440-G2, X450-G2, X460-G2, X465, X590, X620, X670-G2, X690, X695, X870, 5320, 5420, and 5520 series switches.