# Managing Amazon DCV sessions
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Once the Amazon DCV servers are set up and all your applications are installed, your clients access them through a secured session. Managing these sessions for your client grants them access and sets the parameters for each session.

Before your clients can connect to one, you must create a Amazon DCV session on your Amazon DCV server. Clients can only connect to a Amazon DCV server if there's an active session.

Every Amazon DCV session has the following attributes:
+ **session ID** — Used to identify a specific session on the Amazon DCV server.
+ **Owner** — The Amazon DCV user who created the session. By default, only an owner can connect to the session.

Amazon DCV clients need this information to connect to the session.

**Topics**
+ [Understanding Amazon DCV sessions](managing-sessions-intro.md)
+ [Using the Command Line Tool to Manage Sessions](managing-sessions-cli.md)
+ [Starting Amazon DCV sessions](managing-sessions-start.md)
+ [Stopping Amazon DCV sessions](managing-sessions-lifecycle-stop.md)
+ [Viewing Amazon DCV sessions](managing-sessions-lifecycle-view.md)
+ [Managing active Amazon DCV sessions](managing-running-session.md)
+ [Setting session time zone](managing-session-time-zone.md)
+ [Managing screen blanking on Linux](managing-screen-blanking.md)
+ [Taking a screenshot in a Amazon DCV Session](managing-sessions-lifecycle-screenshot.md)