The following steps can be performed to increase the session timeout period manually from the web.xml file.

1. Shutdown Fisheye.
2. Navigate to <FishEye home directory>/content/WEB-INF and backup web.xml

3. Open the web.xml and modify the session config portion to add session-timeout parameter as shown below (session-timeout is specified in minutes):
   

   <session-config>
   		<cookie-config>
   			<name>FESESSIONID</name>
   			<http-only>true</http-only>
   		</cookie-config>
   		<tracking-mode>COOKIE</tracking-mode>
   		<session-timeout>120</session-timeout>
   </session-config>

4. Start Fisheye.