Symptoms

When using remote API scripts against a Confluence cluster, the session is expired after 30 minutes.

The following appears in the atlassian-confluence.log:

Remote error: com.atlassian.confluence.rpc.InvalidSessionException: User not authenticated or session expired. Call login() to open a new session

Cause

There is a token cache that is set to expire in 30 minutes by default.

Resolution

• Locate and open the following file in a text editor: <confluence_home>/config/confluence-coherence-cache-config-clustered.xml

• Find the following section:

  <replicated-scheme>
      <scheme-name>cache:com.atlassian.confluence.rpc.auth.TokenAuthenticationManager.tokens</scheme-name>
      <scheme-ref>default</scheme-ref>
      <backing-map-scheme>
          <local-scheme>
               <scheme-ref>local:default</scheme-ref>
               <high-units>5000</high-units>
               <expiry-delay>1800s</expiry-delay>
          </local-scheme>
      </backing-map-scheme>
  </replicated-scheme>

• Edit the expiry-delay value as appropriate. Default is 1800 seconds (30 minutes).