HP StorageWorks Command View XP Advanced Edition Device Manager Server Installation and Configuration Guide (December 2005)

Command View XP AE Device Manager Server Properties 111
7 Command View XP AE Device Manager Server
Properties
7-1 Overview of Command View XP AE Device Manager
Server Properties
In Windows
®
systems, the default directory for the configuration definition file is: c:\Program
Files\CVXPAE\DeviceManager\HiCommandServer\config
IMPORTANT: If you make a change to any property file, that change will not take effect until the server is
rebooted. If you make changes to any server properties, you will need to restart the Device Manager agent.
• Server properties include web configuration properties and performance properties (see section
7-2 ). Web configuration properties include the IP address and port of the HTTP listener(s), the
location of the server’s document directory, and the name of the default index page.
Performance properties include the size of input/output buffers, various TCP/IP stack and socket
settings, server file-cache parameters, and connection thread priorities.
CAUTION: You should not undertake the task of optimizing these attributes unless you are an expert,
because even minor changes could severely impact the performance of the Device Manager server.
• Database properties (see section 7-3 ) include DBMS parameters, such as drivers and logon ID.
CAUTION: You should not undertake the task of optimizing these attributes unless you are an expert, since
minor changes could severely impact the performance of the Device Manager server.
• Logger properties (see section 7-3-3 ) include directives that configure Device Manager server’s
logging module, including the names, locations and verbosity level of operational and error
logging of the various log files.
• Dispatcher properties (see section 7-5 ) include properties that allow the fine-tuning of various
background processes (daemons) and the optimization of the thread-priority for service agents.
• MIME properties (see section
7-6 ) include the translation/lookup table for all Multipurpose
Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) file types recognized by the Device Manager server.
• Client properties (see section 7-7 ) include properties that configure the Device Manager Web
Client.
• Server security properties (see section
7-8 ) include whether secure-socket encryption is being
utilized, the location and passwords for the Server Certificate TrustStore, a list of permitted client
IP addresses, and properties that support the hardening of the Device Manager server against
certain kinds of denial-of-service attacks.
• SNMP trap properties (see section
7-9 ) include whether to enable Device Manager to use the
SNMP trap function and whether to customize the trap list.
These files are in Java™ property file format, and except for the security properties file can be
modified using any text editor. Each property directive consists of a name-value pair separated by the
equal sign (for example, foo.bar=12345). The appropriate end-of-line terminator, as defined by the
operating system, delineates individual properties.
Comments in Device Manager property files are tagged using the “#” character at the start of a line.
Literals (text strings or numeric values) do not need to be quoted. Boolean values can be either true
or false (case-insensitive). Any other setting (for example, yes) is interpreted as false.
The backslash is a reserved character in Java™ property files, and is used for escaping various
control characters such as tabs, line-feeds, etc. On Windows
®
platforms absolute pathnames typically
contain backslash characters, and must be backslash-escaped, for example, the file pathname