3.16 Configuring Updates and Validation Settings

Use the Advanced Settings (2) tab to define connector configuration and validation settings. Complete the following fields:

Field

Description

Check for Configuration Updates every X (minutes)

Specify the interval in which the connector should look for configuration updates.

NOTE:This does not check for updates to database accounts. If you change a database account, you must restart the connector service for the changes to take effect.

Disable Validation Checking

Select this check box to disable the statistical sampling that looks for errors in the correlation between AppManager events that have not been modified for a specified number of days.

Run Validation Check every X (hours)

When an AppManager operator marks an event for deletion, it may get deleted from the AppManager repository before the connector is aware of the status change. For this reason, there may be AppManager events that do not correlate with any alerts sent to the Netcool TRAPD Probe or AppManager repository.

Hour when full validation may be performed

When validation checking with a statistical sampling uncovers uncorrelated AppManager events, a full validation will be run on AppManager events that have not been modified for a specified number of days. The full validation process can be time consuming. Select this option to schedule full validation at a convenient time.

Check unchanged events older than X (days)

Specify the number of days to wait before removing unmodified AppManager events from the connector cache during the full validation check.

Disable Restart Period

Select this option to disable the restart function.

If this check box is selected, the connector forwards all the alerts and events that have occurred since the connector service stopped.

Server Restart Period (minutes)

If the connector service has stopped, use this field to determine how far back in time it should go to fetch the alerts and events after it restarts. If the Server Restart Period field is set to one hour, for example, the behavior is as follows:

  • If the connector service restarts within one hour of the time it stopped, it will process and forward all of the alerts and events that have occurred since it stopped.

  • If the service restarts more than an hour after it stopped, it will process and forward only the last ten AppManager events that occurred before it restarted.

The Server Restart Period behavior does not apply to downtime of database connections, or any other failovers.

Error Logging Level

This refers to the logging of the connector service. Select the drop-down list to set the level for logging the connector service. The error logs are created in \Program Files\NetIQ\temp\NetIQ_debug\<name of machine>\AMNC.log.

Enable/Disable Logging

Select this option to choose Error Logging type or no logging.

Max Log Size (MB)

Select this option to set a limit to the log file size. When the log reaches the specified limit, it is copied to a backup file (replacing the previous one) so that the disk space used is twice the Max Log Size. If Max Log Size is set to zero, there is no limit on the file size.