Session settings and timeouts in OCI

The following question in the Oracle Groundbreakers Developer Community forum made me investigate on how to change the session timeout in the Oracle Cloud console. Have a look, it is still for some reason unanswered:

For those who use Oracle Cloud Infrastructure on daily basis, they know that the default session timeout is 480 minutes although in my case it is an hour – so often after you switch to the OCI tab, you see the following screen:

Here is the way how you can change it to a longer period with 32767 minutes being the maximum allowed.

Step 1: Open the Service User Console

Step 2: Open the Identity Cloud Service Admin Console:

Step 3: From the Dashboard, choose “Settings” and from there “Session Settings”:

Step 4: Set the “Session Duration” to a longer period of time:

Step 5: Saving the settings to the new value: I chose the maximum which is 32767 minutes:

Here are some additional resources:

Administering Oracle Identity Cloud Service

How to Change the Default Session Timeout Value for IDCS (Oracle Identity Cloud Service) in a P6 Cloud Environment (Doc ID 2812372.1)

Note that there are other setting besides session session: user settings, default settings and partner settings.

You can try also the Console Settings (thanks to Simo Vilmunen) but there I am getting a show stopper: