ViewPoint Manual

Server Assigns and Parameters
ViewPoint Manual—426801-001
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Server Parameters
PRIMARY-DISTRIBUTOR-CPU (-1)
provides the CPU number for the CPU in which ViewPoint runs the primary events
distributor. If this parameter is defined with a valid CPU, ViewPoint uses the value of the
parameter; otherwise, ViewPoint uses the CPU of the server.
Servers: ZVPT-EVNT-COLL
RECOVER-CACHE (FALSE)
indicates whether primary-event and alternate-event distributors should be repositioned to the
oldest event in the cache when ZVPT-EVNT-COLL starts the distributors. The ViewPoint
event collector examines this flag when it is restarted after a CPU failure or shutdown. The
flag indicates how distributors should be positioned when they are restarted by the ViewPoint
event collector. FALSE means that the distributor is not repositioned. In this case, the newly
created EMS distributor returns only events that are generated after it was started. TRUE
means that the distributor is repositioned; that is, the new distributor returns events starting at
the oldest event in the cache before the previous distributor stopped. The default value is
FALSE and is the recommended setting for best performance. Note that this flag does not
affect the last-events distributor. (Note that the REPOSITION and RECOVER-CACHE
parameter are the same, and can be used interchangeably.)
Servers: ZVPT-EVNT-COLL
REPOSITION (FALSE)
This parameter is the same as RECOVER-CACHE (see the preceding description).
Servers: ZVPT-EVNT-COLL
SAMPLE-AGE-MAX-MINUTES (60)
provides the maximum age in minutes that status samples can attain before they are
considered obsolete for display by status display. This age is used by the garbage-collection
server to delete obsolete samples. Possible values are 1 through 32767.
Servers: ZVPT-STAT-DISP, ZVPT-GARB-COLL, ZVPT-STAT-CNFG
STOPDELAY (1)
provides the maximum number of minutes to wait for messages to complete after the
ViewPoint last opener closes a process before terminating the process. The default value is 1.
This parameter is relevant only if HANGAROUND is FALSE. Setting STOPDELAY to 0
causes the process to terminate immediately after the last opener closes it. Possible values
are 0 through 32767.
Servers: ZVPT-EVNT-NTFY
SUPPRESSUNANSWERED (FALSE)
indicates whether to suppress the message that notifies each ViewPoint terminal when an
outstanding event rolls off the end of the primary-events cache. The default value is FALSE;
that is, the message is not suppressed. When set to TRUE, the message is suppressed.
Servers: ZVPT-EVNT-COLL
Table A-2. Server Parameters (page 5 of 5)