[WIP] Porting this PR which was only merged to release 3.6 branch to master

[BernardMC]

What this PR does / why we need it:
This PR was only merged to 3.6 branch and never made it into master
#3628
As a result the latest 3.7 release does not support the session manager
This PR adds the functionality back to main and can then be merged to the 3.7 release branch

Which issue this PR fixes *
#4019

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Release note:

Adding back in session manager support

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