Question : Maximo 7 - user administration - can users be set to time out/be disabled automatically after a certain time period ?

I am using the IBM Maximo 7 application and was wondering if user id's can be set up so that they can be timed out automatically by the application after a certain date and time in the future ?

This will help us with temp acccount and contractor account access as this access will not have to be checked periodically to see if access has been disabled or not.

If this is a feature in Maximo 7, please suggest the screen and the values to use in order to do this.

Thanks !

Answer : Maximo 7 - user administration - can users be set to time out/be disabled automatically after a certain time period ?

You can write an escalation that could set the value of someone's status to INACTIVE or BLOCKED.  To have it expire separately from the password you would have to build a mechanism.  The simplest mechanism would be this:

In the Database Configuration app, add a new column to maxuser called "userexpiration", same as pwexpiration.
Shutdown the app, run configdb.

In Escalations, create an escalation that checks the userexpiration against SYSDATE.  If SYSDATE is less than or equal to userexpiration, set maxuser.status = 'INACTIVE' or 'BLOCKED', your choice.  Set the escalation to run every five minutes or so, whatever you feel is a good frequency.

This solution works for v6 and v7