Sessions - Amazon DCV Access Console
Session details
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Sessions

A session is a span of time when the Amazon DCV server is able to accept connections from a client. Each session has a specified owner and set of permissions.

Before your clients can connect to a Amazon DCV session, you must create a Amazon DCV session on the Amazon DCV server. When you create a Amazon DCV session, you change the state of the server to accept connections from a client. Amazon DCV supports both console and virtual sessions.

On the Sessions page, you can view sessions that you created yourself, and the detailed session information. If there are no available sessions, you must choose Create session to begin.

Note

If you experience issues accessing the sessions created outside of the console, you may need to debug that or delete that session.

You can configure the visible fields in the top navigation bar by selecting the gear icon. To view more details in a split panel view, use the picker to select a session. Then select the caret (^) icon at the bottom-right corner of the page.

By default, sessions that have been closed are hidden with a filter. You can remove the filter to see previously closed sessions.

Sessions management interface showing three available virtual desktop sessions with status and owner details.

Session details

This includes the session parameters themselves. For more information, see DescribeSessions. The details also include the Amazon DCV server information that the session is placed on. For more information, see DescribeServers.

Session details showing status, specifications, and connection information for a Linux instance.
Property Description

Session name

The session name. This field can't be changed after creation (Name in the DescribeSessions API).

Level of access

The level of access for a particular session.

Status

A session has four states associated with it.

  • Creating – The Broker is in the process of creating the session.

  • Available – The session is ready to accept client connections (maps to “READY” in the DescribeSessions API).

  • Closing – The session is being closed (maps to “DELETING” in the DescribeSessions API).

  • Closed – The session is closed (maps to “DELETED” in the DescribeSessions API).

  • Unknown – Unable to determine the session's state. The Broker and the Agent might be unable to communicate. Contact your administrator for help troubleshooting.

Session owner

The name of the session owner (Owner is in the DescribeSessions API).

Session ID

The unique ID of the session (Id is in the DescribeSessions API).

Hostname

The hostname of the host server that the Amazon DCV server is running on (Servers.Hostname in the DescribeServers API).

Host IP address

The unique IP of the Amazon DCV server (Servers.ID in the DescribeServers API).

Operating systems

The name of the host server operating system that the Amazon DCV server is running on (Host.OS.Family in the DescribeServers API).

CPU

Information about the host server’s CPU that the Amazon DCV server is running on (Host.CpuInfo.ModelName in the DescribeServers API).

GPU

Information about the host server’s GPU that the Amazon DCV server is running on (ModelName in the DescribeServers API).

Memory

Information about the host server’s memory, in gigabytes. This information is displayed as [Used GB/Total GB] (Memory.UsedBytes/Memory/TotalBytes in the DescribeServers API).

Last time connected

The last time a user connected to this session (LastDisconnectionTime in the DescribeSessions API).

Number of people connected

The number of people currently connected to this session (NumOfConnections in the DescribeSessions API).

Created at

The time that the session was created at (CreationTime in the DescribeSessions API).
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