User manual BUSINESS OBJECTS POLESTAR ADMINISTRATION AND DEPLOYMENT GUIDE

[. . . ] BusinessObjects Polestar Administration and Deployment Guide BusinessObjects Polestar Copyright © 2008 Business Objects. Business Objects owns the following U. S. patents, which may cover products that are offered and licensed by Business Objects: 5, 555, 403; 5, 857, 205; 6, 289, 352; 6, 247, 008; 6, 490, 593; 6, 578, 027; 6, 831, 668; 6, 768, 986; 6, 772, 409; 6, 882, 998; 7, 139, 766; 7, 299, 419; 7, 194, 465; 7, 222, 130; 7, 181, 440 and 7, 181, 435. Business Objects and the Business Objects logo, BusinessObjects, Business Objects Crystal Vision, Business Process On Demand, BusinessQuery, Crystal Analysis, Crystal Applications, Crystal Decisions, Crystal Enterprise, Crystal Insider, Crystal Reports, Desktop Intelligence, Inxight, the Inxight Logo, LinguistX, Star Tree, Table Lens, ThingFinder, Timewall, Let there be light, Metify, NSite, Rapid Marts, RapidMarts, the Spectrum Design, Web Intelligence, Workmail and Xcelsius are trademarks or registered trademarks in the United States and/or other countries of Business Objects and/or affiliated companies. [. . . ] The value is secEnterprise displayed in the Authentication list of the Log On page. The values that populate the sec Enterprise, Authentication list. secWindowsNT, secLDAP authentications hide. authentica tion. method Determines if the Authentication list is displayed in the Log On page. Disables the Authentication list within the Log On page. Determines if graphical effects are to be used. For example, after clicking Log On the Log On box has a graphical effect applied to it. The period of time in sec30 onds before Polestar times out after an operation, such 100 as logging into the system. The root location for the Polestar documentation. The root location for the Polestar tutorial. true false true false disable. authentica tion. method true false use. effects request. timeout help. url /polestar_help_ /polestar_tu torial tutorial. url BusinessObjects Polestar Administration and Deployment Guide 23 4 Polestar administration Configuring Polestar settings Setting disable. password. en cryption Description Determines if password encryption is to be used. Example Default Values true false Configuring Polestar settings Polestar settings are configured (in order of priority) via: · the command line in the CCM (for a single server on a single node) · a properties file (for all servers on a single node) · the CMC (for all nodes within your deployment cluster) For example, if you configure the settings via a properties file on a node, the CCM settings are ignored for that node. The following settings are configurable: · The indexing path. · · · · · The number of Corba threads to improve server communication. The unit to use for validating bookmarks, possible values include: DAYS, MINUTES, HOURS, or WEEKS. The period of time (based on the unit) that a bookmark is stored. The period of time (in milliseconds) before a session object (handled by an underlying watchdog) is deleted. The delay (in milliseconds) between each update of when slave servers inform the master server about their workload in order that the load is balanced. Configuring the Polestar index path To change the indexing path, an administrator can either: · Amend the value within the CMC administration page. In this case, the value is taken into account by all slave nodes. 24 BusinessObjects Polestar Administration and Deployment Guide Polestar administration Configuring Polestar settings 4 Logon to the CMC. Navigate to BusinessObjects Enterprise Applications > Properties. Change the Default index folder location: value and click Update. Copy any existing indexes to the new location before changing the path. The indexes are stored within folder directories, ensure that you copy the entire directories. · Change a setting for a single node. Create or edit a properties file named polestar. service. properties located under C:\Program Files\Business Objects\Polestar11. 5\, and add this entry: in dex. path=C:/Index. 1. [. . . ] For detailed information on Tomcat logging, see: http://tomcat. apache. org/tomcat-6/0-doc/logging. html Related Topics · · Server logging in Polestar on page 32 Web application logging in Polestar on page 33 Server logging in Polestar By default, server logging within Polestar is activated, it is configured to log only errors. To activate other trace levels for server logging: 1. Open the Central Configuration Manager and locate the server you want to apply logging to. Ensure that the server has been stopped. [. . . ]