How to enable WSO2 Carbon Management Console via HTTP Transport

WSO2 carbon product management console is only exposed in HTTPS by default due to the security aspects. Anyway if someone want to access the management console via HTTP, It also possible. You can just configure it and access.

To enable admin console via HTTP,

1) Go to the $WSO2_HOME/repository/conf and open carbon.xml
2) Uncomment the EnableHTTPAdminConsole property. 

 <EnableHTTPAdminConsole>true</EnableHTTPAdminConsole>

Then start the server. You can access the management console from http://127.0.0.1:9763/carbon/

How to increase the WSO2 carbon management console session timeout

In WSO2 carbon products, The default value of the management console session timeout is 15 minutes. if user is idle for more than 15 min, It expire the user session, Then user need to provide the credential again to  access the management console. if you need to increase the session time out you can just change it through the configuration

1) Go to repository/conf/tomcat/carbon/WEB-INF
2) Change the session-timeout value in web.xml file

     <session-config>
        <session-timeout>15</session-timeout>
    </session-config>

Please note that timeout is defined in minutes.

3) Restart the server

Then, Once you log into the web console, It keeps the user session as you configured.