Owner's Manual

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Properties
Overview
You can modify the application through the .properties files, typically in oware\lib,
oware\medserver\lib
and in owareapps\<application>\lib , for example:
owareapps\redcell\lib . These are text files you can edit with any text editor. The
application does not modify local files during the course of normal system operations. When an
administrator or user modifies files, like properties or seed files, best practice is to note which files
changed and back up that data. (This application stores all its operational data in its database.)
Particularly if you reinstall your application, installation recreates some properties files in their
original form. If you modified those files since the original installation, reinstallation overwrites any
changes. Therefore, it is safest to use the application’s override capacity (see Overriding Properties
on page 126), or to back up these files. See Properties Files on page 129 for files which may change
through daily operation, and must therefore be restored from backup (unless you override
properties) after reinstallation.
Commonly Modified Properties
Among other things, properties files configure the application’s e-mail and use the Win32 print
driver and scheduler defaults. Pound signs (#) indicate comments.
See Overriding Properties on page 126 for advice about modifying properties. You can override
individual properties, regardless of where the originals are located.
Alarm and Resource Manager Refresh Rate
The following properties (in redcell.properties ) specify the Alarm and Resource managers’
refresh rate. Values for these properties are in seconds, and specify the interval between the
processing for querying and displaying information rather than absolute intervals. For example, if
your hardware takes 20 seconds to query and display data, and the refresh rate value is 30 seconds,
then a new screen appears every 50 seconds (the processing time plus the interval).
The minimum refresh rate value allowed is currently 10 seconds. These are commented out by
default.
com.dorado.redcell.manager.polling.AlarmManager
com.dorado.redcell.manager.polling.ResourceManager
You must close and restart the client for this to take effect.