Set the host name, time zone, and session timeout for your Intelligence Center.

For your Intelligence Center to be fully functional, you must set:

A hostname to identify the instance on your network.
A time zone to refer to for timestamp values.
The maximum amount of time a user can be idle while signed in to a session, before they are automatically signed out for security reasons.

Set the hostname

Specify a working and valid hostname for the Intelligence Center.

the Intelligence Center validates the specified hostname to verify that the configured hostname points to the actual server hosting the Intelligence Center instance.

If you enter an incorrect Intelligence Center hostname or no hostname at all, the following functionality is either not available, or it may not work as expected:

Outgoing feeds
TAXII links to TAXII services
User password reset and password reset email notification

In the side navigation bar, go to Settings > System settings.
Click Edit settings.
In the Hostname field, enter the hostname of the machine hosting the Intelligence Center instance to identify it on the network.

the Intelligence Center hostname you specify here must match exactly an existing server_name literal value or data pattern defined in the Nginx configuration file.

If Hostname and server_name do not match, the Intelligence Center may return configuration errors, and it may not work correctly.

For more information, see the official Nginx documentation and the Nginx wiki.

Example: prod.platform.host.com, or 10.0.84.96
To store your changes, click Save; to discard them, click Cancel.

Set the time zone

While you can set a local or a custom time zone value to display local time on the Intelligence Center, the host system time zone must be consistently on UTC time.

This includes OS, databases, as well as any other products or components that enable setting a time zone, and that interact/interoperate with the Intelligence Center.

Set a non-UTC time zone for all users

In the side navigation bar, go to Settings > System settings.
Click Edit settings.
From the Timezone drop-down menu, select the non-UTC time zone you want your users to use.
To store your changes, click Save; to discard them, click Cancel.
Make sure that the Use system timezone checkbox is selected for all Intelligence Center users:
1. In the side navigation bar, go to Settings > User management.
2. Click the menu icon in the row corresponding to the user whose time zone settings you want to check.
3. From the drop-down menu select Edit.
4. In the user edit view, the Use system timezone checkbox is under Locale.

Set one non-UTC time zone for most users and another for some

In the side navigation bar, go to Settings > System settings.
Click Edit settings.
From the Timezone drop-down menu, select the non-UTC time zone you want your users to use.
To store your changes, click Save; to discard them, click Cancel.
In the side navigation bar, go to Settings > User management.
Make sure that the Use system timezone checkbox is selected for all Intelligence Center users:
1. In the side navigation bar, go to Settings > User management.
2. Click the menu icon in the row corresponding to the user whose time zone settings you want to check.
3. From the drop-down menu select Edit.
4. In the user edit view, the Use system timezone checkbox is under Locale.

Now that a collective non-UTC time zone has been set, it is possible to set a different time zone for specific users:

Go to the row of the user you want to set a different non-UTC time zone for, click , and then click Edit.
Deselect the Use system timezone checkbox.
Go to the Edit general settings view, and set the preferred time zone.
To store your changes, click Save; to discard them, click Cancel.

Set the user session timeout

This value defines how long an active user session can be idle, before the Intelligence Center automatically signs the inactive user out.

In the side navigation bar, go to Settings > System settings.
Click Edit settings.
Under Session timeout (in minutes) click the field, and then enter an integer to define after how long inactive user sessions are automatically signed out.
baftaTo store your changes, click Save; to discard them, click Cancel.

Reset the general settings

To remove the current server settings and server configuration for the Intelligence Center, and to reset these options to their default values:

In the side navigation bar, go to Settings > System settings.
Click Edit settings.
Under Reset general settings, click Reset settings.
In the confirmation dialog, click Reset.

Custom server settings are replaced with the default ones.

Configure general settings

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