Cell configuration parameters

CellDescription

Used as the initial value of the cell_description slot of the internal MC_CELL_INFO record.

String

CellExceptionHandlingEnabled

Used to configure how the the cell handles exceptions:

• Yes - cell catches exceptions, automatically restarts itself, and collects data for issue analysis including cell trace files, cell state files and a core dump, if possible

• No - cell service is not available until the cell is restarted manually

Boolean

CellOperationLevel

Indicates the level on which the cell must operate.
The operation level determines from which clients the cell accepts connections and events. The default value can accept connections from any computer.

String

CellOperationRelax

Indicates whether the operation level should be lowered in case there is no license available for the desired level, as set by CellOperationLevel.
Typically, more license tokens are available for lower operation levels.

Boolean

ConnectionPortRange ¹

Specifies the range of ports to use for outgoing connections.
For forward propagation, this port is used on the client side (or on the propagating cell side). This is useful to pass the event through firewalls with high restrictions. Most firewall configurations ignore source port information but require destination port information. However, firewall configuration usually can restrict the source ports as well.

String

ConnectionPortReuse ¹

Indicates whether or not the ports specified in ConnectionPortRange should be reused as much as possible.
By default, the cell or command-line interface (CLI) tries to reuse ports from the specified range, in the specified order. When ConnectionPortReuse=No, the next free port from the specified range is used for every new connection within the same session. When it reaches the end of the range, it restarts at the beginning of the range.

Boolean

POMEnabled

Boolean

ProcessingLimitPercentage

Specifies limitation of event processing speed.
At 100% the cell accepts events as fast as it can. At x% it does not accept events during (100-x)% of the time. This limits the cell's CPU utilization.

Number

CellMetricsCollectInterval

determines the interval length (in seconds) of a single collection. Metrics from a single collection are presented in the short term metrics counters. The default value is CellMetricsCollectInterval=60

Number

CellMetricsCollectAmount

specifies the number of similar single collections to be taken into account. The combination of that many most recent collections is presented in the medium term metrics counters. The default value is CellMetricsCollectAmount=5

Number

ServerAllInterfaces

Determines whether the cell listens on one specific interface or on all available interfaces.
When ServerAllInterfaces=Yes, the cell communicates on all network interfaces on the host. When ServerAllInterfaces=No, the cell only communicates with the network interface that has the IP address specified in the mcell.dir file of that cell.

Boolean

ServerDirectoryName ¹

Specifies the name of the cell directory file.

Path

ServerPort ¹

Specifies the TCP/IP port number at which the cell listens for all in-bound requests from sources, such as the administration console, CLIs, and adapters.

Number

ServiceModelEnabled

Specifies whether the cell is an Event Management cell or a Service Impact Model cell.
If ServiceModelEnabled=No, the cell operates as an Event Management cell.
If ServiceModelEnabled=Yes and Service Impact Management class definitions are loaded, the cell operates as a Infrastructure Management Service Impact Model Cell. If these class definitions are not available, the cell operates as an Infrastructure Management Event Management Cell.

Boolean

This parameter is used to enhance the cell alias stealing feature. The cell alias stealing feature is explained briefly in the following section:

A Device is created for any computer system CI (CSCI) communicated through the PATROL Agent/Portal/Cloud adapter (with n number of aliases for a CI), and if the same CI is published from the Publishing Server (with n-1 number of aliases), then the cell will steal the (n-1) aliases coming from the PATROL Agent/Portal/Cloud adapter, and will create two device entries. One device entry for a CI from published device and the second entry for a CI from PATROL Agent/Portal/Cloud adapter.

If ServiceModelDeleteDuplicateCI=Yes, the cell creates a single device entry and avoids duplicate host entries on the Devices page.

If ServiceModelDeleteDuplicateCI=No, this is the default value, and the cell might create duplicate device entries in case of duplicate CI aliases published from both the PATROL Agent/Portal/Cloud adapter and the CMDB publishing.

SystemLogDirName

Specifies the path to the default system-defined log directory.

Path

SystemTmpDirName

Specifies the path to the default system-defined tmp directory.

Path

SystemVarDirName

Specifies the path to the default system-defined var directory.

Path

TCPKeepAlive

Set this parameter to Yes to keep communication to the destination cell active. Restart the cell for the changes to reflect.

This option is used to maintain a connection when there is a firewall configured between the source and the destination cells, and there is no exchange of data between them for a long time. 

The source cell sends a keepalive packet to the destination cell after the connection has been idle for a time period that is specified in the TCPKeepIdle parameter.

TCPKeepIdle

Value in seconds that the connection to the destination cell needs to remain idle before keepalive packets are sent. Restart the cell for the changes to reflect.

Performs an action when the limit set by the parameter ListLimitForNotesAndOperations is reached.

Parameter Value:

• DiscardNewEntry: Discards new entry if list limit is reached.This is the current default behavior.
• RemoveOldestAddLatest: Removes oldest entry from the list and then adds new entry.
• KeepOldestAddLatest: This keeps the old entries and adds new entries even after reaching list limit as mentioned in configuration parameter ListLimitForNotesAndOperations.